Virus of Stigma
Blaming the Covid-19 patients for their disease is weakening the efforts to control it, reports Saima Bhat
After walking out of a hotel along Boulevard...
Congress: A History In Decline
After Congress formally came out of the Bakhshi’s National Conference in 1965, it survived in factions amid internecine squabbling. Remote-controlled by the party High...
Kashmir’s Women Scientists
Historically, the women in Kashmir have remained empowered enough to be part of every sphere of life. Though they have traditionally picked a set...
Two Years Later
The second anniversary of the reading down of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir indicated clearly that people and politics living on either...
Pledging Publicly
When 105 brides and grooms assembled in a city club for taking marriage vows under one roof in mid-July, it was Kashmir’s first mass...
Real Estate Concerns
Almost 14 months after the Jammu and Kashmir’s historic land laws basket was hugely altered by binning some and changing many, the administration finally...
The Famous Family
Ravinder Singh Binder won the sarpanch elections in Simbal Camp, a village were migrants from the other side were settled after partition. The village...
Breeding An Epidemic
The hospitals in a Kashmir are ill-equipped to handle the waste, especially bio-medical and radioactive, putting lives and the environment at risk. Ikhlaq Qadri...
Guru’s Last Days
Congress government exercised so haste that Tihar jail failed even in arranging a professional hangman to work the gallows for hanging Afzal Guru. TV...
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...
A Widow’s Life
An overwhelming 91 per cent of widows choose not to remarry in Muslim majority Kashmir as they are stigmatized and their children are not...
The Village Talk
As more than 4500 officers moved for an overnight stay in Panchayats between the Sino-Indian border and the Line of Control to listen to...
Pepper Paradise
In the wild goose chase for something to replace the deadly darker pellets, the government got pepper and PAVA. As the government is still...
Almost two months after the HarudLit Fest
was announced to be held in Srinagar, 14 authors, journalists, academics and filmmakers posted an ‘open letter’ on kafila.org. The brief response forced many...
LOST IN TRANSLATION
Ever since the birth of Kashmir conflict, the leadership cutting across ideological divides have traditionally embarked on ambitious dispute- resolution trips to Islamabad. As...
