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Friday, November 8, 2024

Cover Story

This is the major copy on most important happening in a week that usually features on page one of the magazine

Shot In Shopian

A brief gun-battle triggered a chain of events that consumed seven lives including two young men who joined militancy in different situations, as two...

A Trojan In Hajin

A series of brutal killings by unknown gunmen have frightened the region that was source of scare to most of Kashmir at one point...

Beyond Sadhna Top

As India and Pakistan are shelling each other’s positions, it is the civilian population that suffers the worst. Bilal Handoo spent a day with...

Masjid Matters

From once lively socio-religious places where even affairs of the state used to be discussed mosques are now mere prayer halls. Raashid Maqbool finds...

Do Not Blame JHELUM

Governance failure apart, societal corruption, greed and biotic interventions in fragile ecology invited Rs 100,000 crore catastrophe to the City of Kashmir. R S...

‘By Late June Or Early July, We May Again Reach The Pre-April Status’

Dr Syed Mudasir Qadri, an Associate Professor of Internal and Pulmonary Medicine at the SKIMS, Srinagar has been in the thick of the fight...

First Hostage Taking

During the amorphous years of militancy that coincided with Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s ascend to first Muslim Home Minister of India, JKLF kidnapped his daughter,...

A New Stone Age

As sections of youth try to standardize stone pelting as the new mode of communication, law enforcing agencies slide in the old era to...

Lawmakers Grieved Graves

Tuesday, September 27, 2011 was just a routine day of business in the history of state assembly. The issue of unmarked graves dominated Day...

Scholar with a gun

When Lolab’s Mannan Wani drove from AMU to join rebels, everybody within and outside the security grid started asking: “Why did an AMU scholar...

Cathartic Return

When the faithful thronged the places of worship after 21 weeks of disconnect in the lockdown dictated by the pandemic, the scene was cathartic. Being...

Modish Mantra

BJP rising avtar Narendra Modi was fiery in selling half truths to an audience that historically fought Kashmir’s exclusivity in the region. Akin to...
The Legend of Jamia Masjid -- Photo:Bilal Bahadur.

The Legend Of Jamia Masjid

The history of Jamia Masjid is a reflection of the history of Kashmir. A monument of resistance politics, the mosque has been witness to...
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VALLEY OF TEARS

Ocean of Tears is the first government funded documentary on Kashmir's human rights crisis. In anticipation of its maiden screening,120000 people watched it. Shams...

Sand Storm

At the peak of internet blockade, UT administration e-auctioned around 100 sand blocks along the Jhelum river and some of its tributaries. Most of...