Media

The year 2012 saw the addition of many new newspapers, expansions and major non-local media houses flying to Srinagar to set up a base. The tragic demise of one of the most respected journalists...

It can happen only in Kashmir. A fruit vendor runs a news website, self-styled journalists operating around two hundred whatapps news groups, all boasting Valley’s who-is-who as their subscribers. Aakash Hassan reports the shady...

As India starts to digitalize its cable network, people in Kashmir stick to cables for love of Pakistani channels. Safwat Zargar talks to the people to know what drives their preferences  While the process of...

Come winters and Kashmir’s traditional storytellers would get instantly busy, not in so distant past. In absence of the modern tools of entertainment, storytellers were in demand and the tradition survived generations of occupation...

Started by an emergency ruler during Kashmir’s transition from Dogra Raj to the Delhi era, Radio Kashmir has been airing voices for nearly seven decades now compelling Kashmiris to lend it eager ears. But...

As police arrested (later released by the Court) a senior editor for being a proclaimed offender for 28 years in a case registered in 1990,  his colleagues opened up with Masood Hussain to explain why that era...

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...

They have witnessed Kashmir’s changing fortunes through their camera lenses for about five decades. Nazir Ahmad Rather talks to two ace photographers who still work at Mahatta & Co. In 1969, a young boy named...

What happened on March 23, 1987 in Kashmir is even missing from newspaper archives. Shakir Mir painstakingly swifts through whatever material is available to understand how media covered Kashmir’s most talked about elections On a...

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...

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...

A family lost its sole breadwinner to violent death and fell into penury. The murder cost them a decade and a half of struggle, his children’s education and trauma that refuses to abate. Hamidullah...

Mir Liyakat Haider is one of the first ever Bollywood movie that attempted to stage the Shakespeare’s revenge play Hamlet on the recurring Kashmir tragedy. It is meant for an audience whom in the name...

It may yet to have come of age, but journalism in Kashmir has grown beyond anybody’s imagination over the past two decades - its share of controversies and failures on many counts notwithstanding. A...