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Media

“I was forced to leave PTV as my reports frustrated Indian troops stationed in...

It is an unruffled neighbourhood in plush Sanat Nagar locality of uptown Srinagar. In one of the secluded houses, Ghulam Nabi Khayal, 75, a known literary figure is running his pen to author 29th...

Yusuf Jameel, Srinagar

In conflict battered Kashmir when the truth became a casualty and propaganda replaced news, Kashmiris tuned to one source, BBC radio, and its correspondent Yusuf Jameel became a household name. Shazia Yousuf reports.   Born on...

Kashmir’s Virtual Politics

With social media emerging as the alternative universe, part of politics, campaigning and vote-seeking is also taking place in the virtual world. Syed Shadab Ali Gillani reports the formal entry of political parties from...

Digital Dreams

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...

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...

Preserving History

In a period spanning over half a century, Radio Kashmir became an inseparable part of Kashmir’s modern history and culture. While the station gradually lost its sheen with the emergence of an overwhelming situation...

Innovating Sufi music

Shazia Khan They are becoming a phenomenon with more than 12 chart-busters since January. Literally Irfan Nabi and Bilal Ahmad of newly created Sufi Band have succeeded in changing the face of traditional Kashmiri Music. Ask...

Homecoming ‘Haider’

 It was Vishal Bardawaj’s Haider that helped Kashmiri artists revive their lost connections with their homeland. Shams Irfan meets three Kashmiri actors who successfully traced their roots and lost memories after landing on the...

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 for a celebration and the KL team did consider it....

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 that takes places is recorded properly. Your last issue, aptly...
Altaf Kaloo: The Erstwhile Lawmaker

A ‘Star’ Fall

When the former lawmaker, Altaf Kuloo, was caught in Nigeen last fortnight, it triggered a chain reaction: he was placed under suspension by his party, the lady lost her anchoring berth and the director...

Pulitzer, Finally

Kashmir media has been a harried lot throughout. As the pressures mounted in recent days with cases under harsh laws being registered against them, the winning of the Pulitzer by three Jammu and Kashmir...

Sketching 35A

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...

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...

Jashn e Ramzan: The Story Behind The Camera

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...