Stealing The Bread
In trying circumstances enforced by the pandemic, the ration mafia working with the officially run PDS chain denies the poor their share of the...
Mind your facts
Shiekh Showkat
A factual error sneaked into the previous issue of Kashmir Life. Though newspapers referred as they are as literature in hurry, tend to make mistakes, and include factual errors, this one was related to a historical fact. The newspaper column” Personality of the Week for the issue dated 2010-04-03 talked about Mirwaiz Umar being the first Kashmiri separatist leader to have started Chinese diplomacy. The author also mentioned that Sheikh Abdullah had good relations with the then Chinese PM Chou en Lai and the two had several meetings. Then it said that “When Sheikh Abdullah visited Beijing, the Chinese premier received him at the airport”.
Drabu’s Silent Exit
by Khursheed Wani
When elections are round the corner, the political landscape undergoes permutations and combinations, dissension and fresh alignments. Though election bugle has not...
The Many Faces of Kashmiri Nationalism, A Review
Book: The Many Faces of Kashmiri Nationalism (From The Cold War To The Present Day)
Author: Nandita Haksar
Print Length: xvi + 335
Genre: Non Fiction / Narrative
Publisher: Speaking Tiger, New...
End The Lockdown
by Riyaz Wani
A recent runaway surge in coronavirus cases temporarily threatened to plunge Jammu and Kashmir into the same chaos as was unfolding in...
Wildlife In Kashmir Politics
by Masood Hussain
Politics is hugely influenced by wildlife, especially by the lion. In every country, there is somebody who is known as the lion...
A Covid Spring
A year later when the economic forces are fighting to undo the impact Kashmir took in the last two years, the contagion is ferociously...
Red Returns
by Khursheed Wani
Last week parts of capital Srinagar woke up to an unusual sight and activity after a considerable time. Many areas in the...
Deconstructing Modi 2.0
by Masood Hussain
Narendra Modi’s victory in the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections is not an ordinary one. It is a landslide victory as the rightwing...
New Politics
Political forces moving out of the PDP are reshaping the two new parties and making them the ‘new’ mainstream writes, Zahoor Malik
Eclipsed post- August 5,...
Whither Congress
After dominating the history of Jammu and Kashmir for decades, the Congress is completely out of the picture now, writes Zahoor Malik
Having been a...
The Other Sheikh Abdullah
Naeem Akhtar
Around the time in 1905 Sher i Kashmir Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah was born in Srinagar,
Around the time in 1905 Sher i Kashmir Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah was born in Srinagar,
Kashmiri Identity
By Dr S Khurshid ul Islam
Valley of Kashmir is a separate geographical, social, culture and political entity. When we consider its language, culture,...
Secret of ‘Secret Talks’
Dr Altaf Hussain Para
Now it is the seventh week since election results for Kashmir’s Legislative Assembly were declared on 23rd December 2014, and the...
Physical, Not Social Distancing
In these trying circumstances, there is a need to preserve the idea of community, writes Ikhlaq Qadri
A scare is a normal survival response to a...
