Showbiz altar
They are earning good money but would like to quit if they can. Shazia Yousuf delves into the lives of girls that work in...
Reporting On A Razor Edge
Dear Editor,
We, the reporters in Srinagar have passed through hell in last two decades. But we ensured, to our utmost capability, that every incident...
Alone In A Hostile World
Abdul Kareem Gujri, a newspaper vendor, was killed in Pampore as paramilitary opened fire on civilians. His widow and children are fighting a tough...
Scripted in pain
A calligrapher with local Urdu dailies, Ghulam Nabi Mahajan was killed after watching his son die at the hands of troopers during a crack...
Too Costly A Truth
A newspaper vendor and a freelance reporter lost his life and son and later a daughter for reporting the news as he saw it....
A Smile Cut Short
An enterprising photojournalist Mushtaq Ali’s story was cut short by a parcel bomb meant for fellow journalist Yusuf Jameel. Shazia Khan reports the travails...
A Short Flight
His father had died 15 days before he was shot. His wife died less than two years later, leaving their three orphans and his...
A Vacuum In Life
A cameraman with a local cable television Javed Ahmad Mir was shot dead covering a protest in 2008 August. His widow is battling each...
Living With A Trauma
A family lost its sole breadwinner to violent death and fell into penury. The murder cost them a decade and a half of struggle,...
GORE AND PAIN
Kashmir Life has completed first year of its publication – a year that we will remember as painful, challenging but satisfying. Conventional wisdom called...
Building an institution
There may be many factors for the growth of media in the last two decades in Kashmir, but one organisation has provided bricks for...
Impressions of a newspaper reader
ZAMIR AHMAD
The oldest memory of my tryst with newspaper reading dates back to the times when I was a primary school kid. Kashmir, in...
Yes we can
Flick through the main TV channels, and you will find a lot of talk. The 90s saw the widest range and the largest number...
Journalism as a Career
Dr SHAHID RASOOL
Journalism is one of the oldest professions. Earlier mostly people landed in this field either accidentally or by the influence of peer...
