Death Overhead
In last three months around seven deaths were reported from across Kashmir of people who put their lives at risk for sake of electrifying...
Empowering Grassroots
Last week when finance minister Arun Jaitley presented annual union budget in the parliament, apart from the usual hike in luxury goods etc., there...
Dangerous Change
The last week of February usually marks the end of third and last phase of winters in Kashmir, but not the cold. But that...
Food Fight
Last week Kashmir’s womenfolk were up in arms literally against the National Food Security Act (NFSA) that promises a subsidised monthly ration of 5...
Leave It
With state under Governor’s rule for the second time since 2014 assembly elections, there are more than a few angry faces roaming around in...
Resume Talks
Every time the governments in India and Pakistan resume diplomacy and wish to move forward on issues of mutual interest, non-state actors get it...
Role Models
Last week the video of Abdul Qayoom Wani, President Jammu and Kashmir Teachers Forum (JKTF), calling himself a Jigardar boasting his lineage and wealth,...
Decide Fast
It has been nearly a fortnight now that J&K is without an elected government and governor N N Vohra is ruling the state. The...
Dogged Society
Last week internet was flooded with pictures of a Baramullah boy’s mauled face attacked by a pack of canine dogs. The boy is said...
Letter From Editor
We were in the process of finalizing the design of our regular issue when the news of Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s demise set...
Letter From Editor
Had this special New Year publication included the politics of the place and its governance, it would have been completely different. Regardless of its...
Free Lunches
Quietly, in the last three decades, a major shift in Kashmir’s food fundamentals took place—the onus of feeding the population phenomenally shifted from growers...
Letter From Editor
Every winter, for the last three consecutive years, the Kashmir Life newsroom was gung-ho every time the snowflakes would create the visual maze from...
Improve Accountability
State education ministry’s effort to restore the pristine dignity and social status of the teacher is welcome. It is a fact that material rat...
Billing Blues
The PDP-BJP coalition government has finally announced it will adopt the Food Security Act and after legislating on it in the fast approaching budget...
