Saving Namda
An 18-year-old girl’s invention helped save the centuries old art of Namda making. A sports and science fiction buff, she already has her kitty...
Delayed Degrees
A two year PG course takes more than three years to complete in Kashmir University, leaving students in a fix. Saima Bhat talks to...
Fleeing The War Theatre
As Russia finally invaded the NATO member, Ukraine, its weakest neighbour, scores of Kashmiris were caught in the medical campuses. While efforts are underway...
In Avanitvarman’s Capital
When the Islamic University was established in the deserted foothills of Awantipore, the naysayers said the campus hardly suits a small highway town, home...
Another Sheikh Abdullah
In Kashmir, the prestigious Aligarh Muslim University is linked to two towering personalities, both named Sheikh Abdullah. While one, almost every Kashmiri is aware...
A Reading Room
A woman in Jammu sets up a library on her property to encourage students to read and gradually it is emerging a model for...
NEP’s Flip Side
Currently in vogue, the ambitious and modern NEP-2020 has a huge flip side too, reports Aiman Fayaz
In 2022, the government implemented a new education policy...
Smouldering Schools
Schools became surprising targets of arson and destruction after Burhan Wani’s killing in July 2016. Officially all are operational. Umar Khurshid visited some of...
The Sand Art
When an entire classroom understood the idea of how sand art can be used to explain a situation in one of the world’s most...
Like Father, Like Daughter
Muskan Fatima writes about the family of Prof Nooruddin, Kashmir’s first mathematician and the first VC of the University of Kashmir, most of whose...
Mission Commercialised
Running from government leased land, ‘charitable mission’ schools in Srinagar charge huge amount from students in the name of education. Syed Asma reports the...
Taming Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) has seven global strains and some of them are defying the most modern therapies that science has evolved. Still one of the...
Architecture Education in India
Dr. Seemin RubabThe signature of any city is its vernacular architecture. When conserved, it is heritage and when in ruins, it becomes archaeology. Architecture...
‘We Are Trying To Technologically Equip Our Schools’
Director of School Education Kashmir, Tassaduq Hussain Mir is a busy man these days. He has to ensure that the government schools adopt and...
How Insulin Killed The Practice of Keeping Diabetic Alive By Enforced Hunger?
by Jameel Barkat
100 years down the line, Insulin is still not flowing in the veins of the millions of people who desperately need it....
