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Diary

How Kashmiris see places outside the state of Jammu and Kashmir and how non-local see Kashmir is the main offering of this section. Occasionally, Kashmiri writers are also requested to write about Kashmir locations and localities.

Kashmir to Kanyakumari

ABDUL WAJID It was late February in wintry Kashmir. The mercury was dipping down to subzero and the cold was harsh enough to arrest me...

A Learning Experience

Aadil Habib Bhat  It is our pre-final year (3rd) in Punjab Institute Of Engineering & Applied Research, located at, Malakpur Lalru Mandi Distt: Mohali Punjab,...

From Kashmir to Kota

 Imbisat Makhdoomi I am one of those students who left his motherland Kashmir for a better future. Kashmir, a poets heaven or paradise needs no...

His Blaze Version

Sajjad A Kitchloo, the Kishtwar representative in the state assembly, was at home when the town burnt. This was one reason why the BJP...

When Vietnam met Kashmir

How would you communicate when stuck in a foreign land with a completely foreign companion? Saba, a PhD scholar who was in Philippines to...

Down the Memory Lane

Khalid Bashir Ahmad After graduating with Honours in Political Science from SP College in 1975, I joined Aligarh Muslim University for Masters in Sociology but...

My First Speech

Uzma Bhat I was very enthusiastic but nervous as well. This was for the first time I had to make a public speech. I was...
Participants at the cross-LoC civil society dialogue organized by Centre for Dialogue and Reconcillation

Tracing The Roots

It was emotional return for the great grandson of Mistri Yaqoob Ali, one of the top leaders of the then Muslim Conference, to Jammu...

A Manufactured Chaos?

IBNE MUHAMMAD Azhar is a star stone-pelter. A committed protester who, alongside his comrades, has been giving tough time to law enforcing agencies in the...

A Great Game

A US Geological Survey estimating the presence of huge minerals, oil and gas reserves in Arctic has made the region a centre-stage of a...
Dr Geer Mohammad Ishaq

In the Land of Mayans

DR GEER MOHAMMAD ISHAQ As they say, journeys help you discover your true inner self. My third visit abroad to Mexico to attend 12th annual...
Kashmir Life Correspondent Sameer yasir in Kazakhstan

In Almaty

Once a largely rural country, Kazakhstan has undergone a humongous demographic change in the last decade which has changed the cultural landscape of the...
Photo:Bilal Bahadur

Ladakh- A land of thousand surprises!

Ladakh is a perfect place to forget the banality of life to discover oneself altogether differently. Shams Irfan visited the land of Stupas recently where...

K-word in Delhi

SHAMS IRFAN catches up with Kashmiri students studying in Delhi. Chatting them up, he finds it is hard to avoid talking about the Kashmir...

Kashmir, Kerala and Eco Tourism

By: Shams Irfan While we are busy turning our tourist spots into concrete jungles at an unmatched pace and setting bad example for our next...