Media

With six of its staffers down with Covid-19 infection, the newsroom has been closed for a week now. Masood Hussain narrates how while covering it, the dreaded virus caught up with the Kashmir Life...

Kashmir media has been a harried lot throughout. As the pressures mounted in recent days with cases under harsh laws being registered against them, the winning of the Pulitzer by three Jammu and Kashmir...

by Tahir Bhat During wee hours on Friday, November 20, 2020, when Greater Kashmir publisher Rashid Mukhdoomi’s phone peeped too many times, he saw his staffers messaging him about Mudasir Ali’s death. In anger, he...

Over the past two decades, an increasing number of women have adopted journalism as a career despite the challenges that conflict throws up, reports Durdana Bhat When Afsana Rashid, started her career as a journalist way...

Living in perpetual gloom and sadness for decades, some young men have unleashed their funny bone on the internet, thus offering moments of laughter and smile. Farzana Nisar meets content creators of some of...

In a period spanning over half a century, Radio Kashmir became an inseparable part of Kashmir’s modern history and culture. While the station gradually lost its sheen with the emergence of an overwhelming situation...

A picture is worth a thousand words. True. But ever thought who are these guys who risk their lives, work in extremely dangerous conditions, inside world’s most volatile areas, under the deep seas, in...

Chances are you might have come across Xaid Film videos many times and shared a laugh too. Saima Bhat meets the brain behind these funny videos to tell his story At 18 this Pampore teenager...

by Swati Parashar The calmness of a perfect summer day in Gothenburg (where I live and teach at the university) was shattered when I received the news that renowned Kashmiri journalist and activist, Shujaat Bukhari...

Supriya Sahu, Director General Doordarshan on game show KBC and the issues related with the DD-Kashir KASHMIR LIFE (KL): Can Kashmiri version of KBC help revive the Doordarshan Srinagar to its earlier glory? SUPRIYA SAHU (SS):...

In 2003, a PaK woman returned home from Jammu with a daughter born in jail as a result of rape by the warden and died two years later. Almost 16 years later, a group...

In 1981, when Mahendra Koul (July 28, 1922 – July 18, 2018) visited the 10-Downing Street, he looked at Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.“I looked at her from top to toe,” he later recalled, “No...

Shamim Ahmed Shamim was one of Kashmir’s prominent journalist editors who was later in politics and was elected to the state assembly and the parliament. He edited Aina newspaper that was known for his...

Shams Irfan on the quitting of Bollywood by promising Kashmir actor Zaira Waseem, a decision that triggered a new disquiet  in the tinsel town and social media Last week, when Zaira Wasim, an 18-year-old Kashmiri actress,...

  Gagging mass media has been an age old practice to stop people from knowing what they are supposed to. With internet, a new edifice of social information emerged. But managing it is pretty easier...