A Gasping Gulmarg
By Khursheed Wani
Gulmarg’s tryst with travelers is historic. From the British officers of the Rawalpindi and Quetta garrisons to the Nawabs of undivided Punjab...
Avoid Mob Takeover
By: Muhammad Tahir
Back in the late 2000’s, I read an interesting book by William Ury The Third Side (1999). An anthropologist and a...
The Importance, Rules of Sadqatul Fitr
Rasulullah Sallallahu 'alayhi wasallam said: “The fast remains suspended between Heaven and Earth until the fitrah is paid.”
It is reported that the Prophet Muhammad...
Muscular Management
By: Khursheed Wani
On May 27, Sarshad Ahmad, a young Islamic studies student was shot in forehead outside the cordoned area in Tral’s Saimoh village....
Avoidable Ingress
By: Khursheed Wani
The student protests in Kashmir, triggered by the avoidable ingress of government forces into Pulwama Degree College on April 15, have entered...
Confounding Conflict
By: Khursheed Wani
The killing of an off-duty army officer Ummer Fayaz Parray in South Kashmir’s Shopian district is indicative of the explosive situation in...
Polling again?
By: Khursheed Wani
Romantic poets have been fascinated by the fragrance of flowers, riot of colours and the darling buds of May. When conflict overtakes...
Between Three Decades
By: Khursheed Wani
The just concluded by-election for the Central Kashmir parliamentary seat was unprecedented. Like the most maligned assembly elections of March 1987, the...
Invoking Religion
By: Khursheed Wani
In next two weeks, Mehbooba Mufti is completing her first year as the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. During this period...
Drawing Blanks
By: Khursheed Wani
Holding elections to get a group of legislators and parliamentarians is not new in Kashmir, nor is the effort of the pro-freedom...
Peace and Jobs
By: Khursheed Wani
On March 7, a sizeable number of youngsters gathered in the backyard lawns of Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti’s official residence on Gupkar...
Satanic ‘Saint’
By: Khursheed Wani
In February last week, Budagam’s notorious faith healer Gulzar Ahmad Bhat alias Gulzar Peer walked free almost four years after he was...
Harsh Consequences
By Khursheed Wani
During the early years of militancy in Kashmir, a security officer waylaid a senior journalist in Lal Chowk area and slapped him...
Let Better Sense Prevail
By Khursheed Wani
The soothing sunshine in February comes as a big relief for common Kashmiris who went through one of the worst winters in...
Imbalanced
By Khursheed Wani
The people of Kashmir are fighting a long drawn battle for their existence. The bullets and pellets fired to silence the population...
