Life is Precious
It was an unusual scene at busy Amira Kadal in Srinagar when a teenager girl jumped in to the river Jhelum to end her...
Unwire Us
Finally Srinagar Municipal Corporation mustered courage to seek Inspector General of CRPF’s intervention in ridding city of concertina wires. How CRPF is going to...
Robotic Intervention
Every year when new tourist season begins in Kashmir and hordes of tourists flock for a glimpse of our beautiful vale, we welcome them...
Drowned Again
As soon as snow began to fall and people were struggling to negotiate through slippery roads administration was nowhere to be seen. The scenes...
Outsourcing Education
What everybody seems to neglect in the recent controversy that erupted after some Kashmiri students studying outside celebrated Pakistan’s win over India in Asia...
Own It
Most of the infrastructure that evolved in last more than twenty years to fight insurgency, has its foundations on two inter-dependent laws, the disturbed...
The ‘Other’
Stepping outside Jawahar tunnel is not always a trip to remember. Some hindrances do play a spoilsport. And the matter indeed becomes pivotal given...
Jungle Rule
In November 2012, the surfacing of a video footage from South Kashmir’s apple bowl Shopian, in which an angry mob was allegedly trying to...
Third Eye
There are hardly any eyebrows raised in valley when Delhi media presents facts regarding Kashmir in a twisted and biased manner. It shocks none...
Anger Management
In a place like Kashmir where atrocities at the hands of men in uniform have become order of the day, one expects ordinary people...
Born Corrupt
The use of adjectives like, valley of saints, peer wair, the land of pious etc to describe Kashmir shows how we, as citizens of...
Number Game!
Once again, after the 12th class results are out the focus is back on the numbers. Newspapers proudly feature students who have secured almost...
Looking Back
Omar Abdullah led coalition government completed five years in office. Many people made their surprise and shock public that the government avoided any formal...
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...
