Jammu’s Women Reporters
On Women’s Day 2020, journalist Pallavi Sareen details the unfair ratio of fair gender in Jammu’s media
This women’s day, 29-year-old Shilpa Thakur is planning to inspire young girls from colleges across Jammu city to...
Message on Canvas
She can draw with both hands at a time. But that is not what Uzma likes to boost. She likes to paint different shades of Kashmir’s conflict torn life. Saima Bhat tells her story
Fascinated...
Club Calling
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...
Why Do I see Shamim Ahamd Shamim As Keats of Urdu Journalism?
On the death anniversary of the prominent editor, orator, and politician, Shamim Ahmad Shamim, kindly read a lecture that former government officer and prolific writer, Zahid G Muhammad delivered on May 16, 2005, at...
Kashmir through my lens
By Durdana Bhat
I don't decide to represent anything except myself, Mahmoud Darwish once said, but that self is full of collective memory.
These words of the prominent Palestinian poet resonated when someone from my community...
An Animated Kashmir
Thousands of youth, adults and children are consuming tons of animations and the consumption is only going up. Muskan Fatima reports the trend and the factors pushing the new fad
In 2019 fall, when Meem...
Colossal Loss
In 2014 September floods, hundreds of people lost their rare objects, books and documents. While the collective flood loss was historic, the personal loss was equally colossal. Bilal Handoo reports how the deluge devoured...
An Undelivered Gift
by Saifuddin Soz
Syed Shujaat Bukhari came to meet me, two days before he was killed. When we met it became a kind of celebration because I used to have a library on the top...
Gunning The Gag
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...
Djins, Jokes and Journalism
Shams Irfan tells his journey of graduating from a page-3 reporter to a seasoned journalist who has since reported almost all shades of Kashmir’s story
It was an August afternoon in 2011 when I first...
Two Videos, Two Stories
For the last many years, social media is triggering decision-making within the government and society. Last week demonstrated it yet again when the Jammu and Kashmir administration reacted to two videos, both concerning the...
Breaking Away From Tradition
Introduced in 2010, Srinagar’s Government College for Women has produced its first, all-girls batch of mass communication graduates who are ready to take off to achieve new heights, a welcome change in a society...
“In 90’s young Kashmiris were angry but scared and now they are angry and...
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...
Small Is Beautiful
He paints small objects in his small world. He paints anything from sand grains to canvas besides injection vials and bulbs from inside. Sameer Hussain Dar has featured in many TV programmes including on...