Railway Millionaires
As Railways ventured into Kashmir Valley, it paid 600 crore as compensation for land to people. But as the train chugs, the traces of...
CROSS KIN TRADE
Started with fanfare, the Trans-LoC trade through the Jehlum Valley Road, bogged down by lack of modalities has got restricted to few people trading...
A Shrinking Empire
On June 11, 1939, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah converted Muslim Conference into National Conference to give it a pan J&K appeal. While the party has...
Masters In Uniform
The allegations that the army had resorted to taking Kashmiris on forced labour (Begaar) during the last two decades has opened the historical wounds...
Home Calling!
As New Delhi debates its surrender policy and draws flak for calling back ‘militants’ from PaK, hardly anyone explains that apart from intending or...
In Oblivion: Life of a Renegade’s family
They fought India’s war in Kashmir and paid with their lives. Now their families, ignored by government and ostracised by the society, fight a...
HIGH & MIGHTY- J&K’S TOP 10
Irrespective of the political make up of societies and nations, power is always centred among a few people, a few high and mighty. They...
Dynastic Democracy
From an independent Kingdom to present dispensation, and a lot of chaos and tyranny in between, it has been a long journey for Kashmir’s...
WOMAN POWER
For the first time many Kashmiri women are holding positions of consequence in the state administration. Shazia Yousuf profiles 11 of them to get...
A Peerless Peer
After the jury selected Basharat Peer, author of Curfewed Night, as the Kashmiri of the year 2009, Kashmir Life invited Dr Haseeb A Drabu...
10 controversies of 2009
While Shopian dominated 2009, there were other controversies too that hogged the headlines. Haroon Mirani lists the top 10.
CHINESE VISA ROW
The year 2009...
A PEERLESS PEER
After the jury selected Basharat Peer, author of Curfewed Night, as the Kashmiri of the year 2009, Kashmir Life invited Dr Haseeb A Drabu...
Skewed, Skimpy SKEWPY
Billed as a landmark, the government’s employment and welfare programme is mostly a cocktail of existing schemes with some more doles thrown in. Many...
BLOODLESS MURDER
They were launched as promising businesses but interfering politicians rendered them unviable. In effect shaking the lives of thousands of their employees. Haroon Mirani...
Switched Off
Busting the myth of normalcy, the union government has banned prepaid cellular service in J&K in a move that shakes four million users, seven...
