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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.

Muzaffarabad

Syed Shujaat Bukhari
In Pakistan Administered Kashmir (PaK), one comes across a strange emotional bonding the people have with our part of Jammu and Kashmir. Generally referred to as “Occupied Kashmir” (Maqbooza Kashmir), they are in love with its beauty to an unimaginable limit. A few years back, I was in Central Asia.

Muzaffarabad

by Syed Shujaat Bukhari Located at a distance of 180 kilometres from both Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, and Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu...

Japan

Sameer Yasir                             Outside the Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok, the rain drops falling on the gigantic statute of Buddha...

Malaysia

Qazi Mamoon Ashraf: It is time for lunch. It is time to leave all the (fake) studying and hop into the canteen, look around...

Seoul

Dr Upendra KaulFor an interventional Cardiologist like me, Seoul-the capital city of South Korea is a Mecca. A number of surgical procedures have been...

London

Amina RawatIn 2005, the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that the blanket ban on prisoners voting, imposed in 1870, was an...

Ahmedabad

Athar Parvaiz If Delhi Metro has eased off traffic travails of Delhiites and has revolutionised the mobility in the city, BRTS (Bus Rapid Transit...

London

Amina RawatPrior to the election of the current coalition government of the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, the leader of the latter...

Thailand

Qazi MamoonIt was a little past 3 in the afternoon when our plane landed at the Suvarnabumi International Airport in Bangkok. I had left...

KISHTWAR

For many decades of its existence, Adbi Markaz Kamraz has remained a perpetual address to part of the literature that Kashmir produced. Almost all...

LONDON

AMINA RAWATPope Benedict XVI, the head of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of the Vatican City State, made a 4 day State Visit to...

Guwahati

Khursheed WaniThere are many similarities between Kashmir and the north-east. Both hilly and border regions have inherited problems, economic as well as political, from...

BOGOR

Shazia KhanAfter our arrival at the Jakarta international airport in Indonesia, we headed to the city of Bogor.A relaxed, one and a half hour...

Srinagar

M Y SiddiquiSwift action, spontaneous response and quick help thy name is the people of the Kashmir Valley. When it comes to the crunch,...

JAPAN

Ashiq Masood Islam reached Japan towards end of 19th century, much later as compared to her neighbouring countries - Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippine or even...