Media

Thirteen years after poet Agha Shahid Ali’s death Kashmir University finally dedicated a seminar to the ‘national poet’. But as things unfolded Bilal Handoo found out that Shahid’s presence was nothing more than a...

Kashmir’s preeminent cartoonist BAB talks to Umar Mukhtar on his popular drawings since 1969 KASHMIR LIFE (KL): How did you became a cartoonist? BASHIR AHMAD BASHIR (BAB): Initially I was not planning to be a...

With the closure of internet, one of the key sectors that suffered severely in a highly stressed society was the entertainment. Understanding the emerging requirement, a middle aged man resurrected his ailing business to...

At a time when efforts are underway to request the search giant Google to add Kashmiri to its translation services, Khalid Bashir Gura met a number of young men who are creating content in...

With the demise of Ved Bhasin, Kashmir lost an iconic fighter for secularism, democracy, free speech, liberalism, and justice. But Masood Hussain, who closely worked with him in the most crucial era of Kashmir’s...

by Yusuf Jameel The very first time we met I was at Aftab and was introduced to Kuldip Nayar by its editor Khawaja Sannaullah Bhat as ‘the boy sitting in that corner who does it’. The...

They are earning good money but would like to quit if they can. Shazia Yousuf delves into the lives of girls that work in locally produced Kashmiri music albums as dancers. A young man picks...

Ruling journalist-abundant party created new precedence by banning a newspaper in 2016 summer. But there were many other incidents that are unlikely to get buried in the footnotes of history, writes Masood Hussain   “This boy...

With the effective takeover of personal communication by the internet-powered cell phone, hundreds of fortune hunters and vested interests are generating content for a diverse audience. Offering the flip side of the virtual world,...

Two childhood friends, Umar and Anil, separated by circumstances for over two decades, come together to find their creative space in Kashmir’s growing advertising business. Saima Bhat reports    Both Umar Jeelani and Anil Raina,...

The constitution of an advisory committee is yet another extension to the “media management” policy that started decades back, observes Masood Hussain Everybody is not required to know it but last week was intensely interesting....

As the internet shutdown continues into 2020, making it the longest internet gag in the history of democracy, reports Umar Mukhtar By the year-end when the internet gag would cross 150 days, it will be...

Amid the technology shift, the evolving virtual world is coming with its lingo in symbols and texts. A work in progress, and it will take a long time to accommodate the traditional etiquette systems....

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...

Tens of thousands of rims were printed in reporting, analysing and commenting on the attempts aimed at proving the illegality of Article 35(A) in India’s constitution. But a bunch of cartoonists used less ink...