Out of Gear
On the last day of 2013 Kashmir woke up to a white blanket of snow. It was the season’s first heavy snowfall. Everything around...
Circa 2013
Notwithstanding the resolves that leaders and policy makers might have had for 2013 but nothing much changed in Kashmir. While recurrence of any summer...
Need for Change
With 10th class results out and festivity filling the air around Kashmir a lot many important questions also got buried under the noise of...
Right to Life
On the 10th of every December, world takes a break to ponder over the state of human rights in conflict torn places across the...
Disabled Mentality
Last week when the cleric separatist Mirwaiz Umer Farooq said J&K was not a “better” state but a “police state”, he was completely on...
Modi & Kashmir
With Lok Sabha election round the corner BJP’s PM candidate has upped his ante against one and all hoping to strike a chord with...
Life in Darkness
Come winters and Kashmir slips into perpetual darkness. If one looks from sky one can see nothing but darkness enveloping the valley. The absence...
Care for Kids
Special functions were organized across India including J&K on the occasion of Childrens’ Day on November 14, birth anniversary of Pandit Nehru. In Kashmir,...
Migratory Resources
With half of the population migrating to warmer places in Jammu and other Indian states, winter in Kashmir is often a dull affair. There...
Get The Real Culprits
For the last few weeks, the Srinagar Municipal Corporation is sealing buildings which have emerged in violation of the master plan guiding the development...
Moving Again
Almost every year, when 150-strong fleet of state road transport trucks carrying loads of important government documents and other paraphernalia start to make their...
Keran Crisis
Nearly for three weeks, Keran was in news. Despite that nobody was in a position to see and report from the spot, located around...
Probe Politics
On the first day of state assembly’s autumn session held in Srinagar Chief Minister Omar Abdullah ordered a judicial probe in to the September...
Mowing Down
In a shocking incident, a speedy truck (tipper) mowed down 52 cattle including sheep and goats at Nowgam crossing in the early hours of...
AFSPA Influence
For the last many years, the entire debate over helping Kashmir restore normalcy is surrounding special laws especially the AFSPA that is mother of...
