Media

As the interim leadership of Kashmir’s Aiwan-e-Suhafat – after putting in the basic spadework – announced the dates for an exercise aimed at electing the first leadership of the Press Club, Muhammad Raafi offers...

The fury of Jhelum that unleashed hell in summer capital inundating properties and putting people at risk triggered a rescue mission spearheaded by countless local brave-hearts and media men. Kashmir Life details the rescue efforts shouldered by...

Is journalism a launching pad for politicians? Or are the two professions embedded eternally? As election fever grips valley, Bilal Handoo takes a look at some of the recent switchovers and the buzz that scribes...

Within a few months after moving out of the classroom, a young reporter in Kashmir Life landed in a team that shot an infotainment series for Ramzan, the Muslim month of fasting. Unprecedented, the...

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...

The internet ban has taken a huge toll on Kashmir media, impacting the quality of journalism and making many journalists redundant as they fail to send their contributions to their media organisations. Unlike the...

The photojournalists in Kashmir, unlike their reporter colleagues, are supposed to be as close to the theatre faction as situation permits. This has its own costs. There have been a series of incidents in...

In last three decades, Kashmir’s media corps has fought innumerable battles to keep the flickering hope alive. Masood Hussain offers the first hand account of how the latest gag that halted newspaper publication for...

Kashmir Life’s photojournalist Bilal Bahadur dodged death once again when a teargas shell, aimed at his head, missed and hit his arm at Bijbehara, where he had gone to cover Hizb-ul-Mujahideen militant Adil Reshi’s...

ARSHID MALIK George Orwell wrote the lines, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” He understood that if you can control what people know about history, if you...

Former BBC journalist Andrew Whitehead covered Kashmir conflict extensively during troubled 90’s. On his recent visit to Srinagar, Saima Rashid talks to him about changes he observed on ground Kashmir Life (KL): You have reported...

While producing a mini-documentary series on Kashmir’s Winter Business, the challenging assignment to the youngest member of the Kashmir Life newsroom was too heavy a weight. But getting into the frostbitten frames in a...

Charged with espionage and detained for four years, photojournalist Maqbool Sahil wrote books inside the jail. He writes about the torture and his helplessness during his incarceration. I was arrested in Badami Bagh area of...