Sopore of My Childhood
While offering the first-hand account of his birth and upbringing in Sopore, the ninth-century town, scientist and clinician, Dr M Sultan Khuroo details the...
Semthan Secrets
Located between the highway and Jhelum is Bijbehara’s Semthan. Home to a cluster of archaeological ruins, it is Kashmir’s only spot where humans’ have...
A Quantum Model
Kashmir’s young quantum physicist, Rukhsan ul Haq tells Khalid Bashir Gura his long story from a dusky central Kashmir village to the IBM Quantum,...
The New Learning Curve
The implementation of the new education policy (NEP2020) has inordinately delayed the admissions at the undergraduate level as the authorities have joined the national...
Pandit Protests
The killing of Rahul Bhatt triggered unending protests by Kashmiri Pandits who are serving the government across the Valley under a special package. Khalid...
The Proud Shepherd
A boy who was being encouraged to follow his father and graze herds in the Pir Panchal jungles decided to study sciences and was...
Deconstructing Delimitation
With the Ranjana Prasad-led Delimitation report expected to trigger sweeping changes in the legislative map, the politics and the power structure of the erstwhile...
Unusual Outages
Unprecedented load shedding has pushed angry consumers to the streets in Jammu and Srinagar forcing power managers to explore all options within their reach....
Impressive Footfalls
After years of slump, Kashmir is witnessing record tourist arrivals. With half a million arrivals registered already, stakeholders believe sustained interest will help make...
A Monstrous Murder
After raising two sons in his more than three decades of marriage, an old man is strangulated to death and thrown into Dal lake....
Course Correction
Kashmir’s seminary network is acknowledging the concerns but it would require strong societal backing to encourage the Dar-ul-Ulooms’ to start producing skilled people so...
Documenting Migration
The eruption of militancy in 1990 created a situation that is difficult to even imagine now, thirty years down the road. The situation had...
Historian Hangloo
On the eve of the publication of his ninth major book, historian Prof Rattan Lal Hangloo spent a few days in Srinagar after a...
Sheikhs In Srinagar
Three months after a couple of UAE’s retail chains started importing Kashmir products, a major delegation of the potential investors spent three days in...
The New Kashmir Film
In absence of a theatre, Khalid Bashir Gura watched The Kashmir Files in bits and pieces to offer a peephole view of the Bollywood...
