Doomed PDP?
Between its decision of pulling down Azad government in 2008 and joining hands with BJP in 2014, the PDP has lost the middle-ground that...
Sharing A Style?
Is Dr Farooq Abdullah delivering his political speeches the same way as Dilip Kumar would deliver his dialogues, asks Zahoor Malik
Many people from television...
Srinagar Must Vote, Even for NC
Naeem Akhtar
A two end axis has emerged in the state electoral politics which seems to have become immutable since 1996.Separatists led by Syed Ali...
Identity and Existence
by Khursheed Wani
A common refrain in Kashmir is that even domestic feuds have their origins in the unresolved political issue of Kashmir! The more...
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”.
Musharraf the visionary
by Shujaat Bukhari
Pakistan’s former President General Parvez Musharraf may be the most hated person in his country today, but in Kashmir, he has many...
CAUTION: PR at work
Tarique A Bhat“... if the circus is coming to town and you paint a sign saying ‘Circus Coming to the Exhibition ground ‘, that’s...
Rights of domestic child labourers
Dr. Bashir A DablaThe fact stands needs no emphasis that domestic labour (DL) stands as most suffering group among labourers. At the same time,...
U-Turn Politics
Shams Irfan
There is something seriously wrong with separatists. The way they have been handling themselves since Mufti Muhammad Sayeed took over the reins of...
The Choices before Them!
Dr Altaf Hussain Para
Now the much hyped election process of Jammu & Kashmir is over and the people have made their choice in a...
Govern Now
The administration appears as clueless and helpless about the unfolding catastrophe as the ordinary people, writes Riyaz Wani
With over three lakh Covid-19 cases a day,...
Sardar Patel Reborn?
BJP’s PM candidate Modi has not said much about Kashmir issue during his recent campaigns. Dr Altaf Hussain Para argues that being a Sardar...
Once we were not so bad
Pakistan does not know what it has lost. India doesn’t recognise where it is winning, Pakistani veteran journalist Khaled Ahmed writes in The Indian...
Restore hope to the future
Tarique A Bhat
The debate on crime, social evils and moral values in our society has been in public discourse
The debate on crime, social evils and moral values in our society has been in public discourse
Haqeeqat-e-Kashmir: A celebration of life
Hakeem Raashid
Over hundreds of years of occupation and subjugation Kashmir has evolved its own culture of resistance. But least would be the times in...
