Media

With Kashmir story slowly losing its sheen at the international arena a number of professional photographers are looking for alternative source of livelihood. Shams Irfan reports the trend Sitting in his modest office in Abi...

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...

For the last 100 days, professionals reporting Kashmir use a rationed bandwidth in a designed cafe to keep the records right for the history. But is it sustainable on long term basis, asks Masood Hussain Last...

One of the earliest jolts journalism in Kashmir received was the killing of Alsafa News editor Mohammed Shaban Vakil, reports R S Gull. .                    ...

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...

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 of his family. (Photographer Mushtaq Ali) Twenty-seven-year-old Mushtaq Ali worked as a...

Neither is music new to the land of Habba Khatoon nor the debate over its status in Muslim societies. Then why all of a sudden was there a high decibel noise and swift police...

Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal, the Managing Editor of Kashmir Times went to the Supreme Court against the communication blockade that Jammu and Kashmir is passing through post-August 5. After the verdict came more than five...

A young boy draws jaw-dropping works without ever been part of an art class, reports Umar Mukhtar It takes degrees and a lot of experience for a mature artist to hold hands firm and draw or...

It took a long time to undo the government’s monopoly over the printing press. Scholar Nayeem Showkat details the evolution of the printing facility and allied newspaper sector in Jammu and Kashmir since 1858 Four...

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...

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...

More than six months after freelance news-photographer Kamran Yousuf returned home, Muhammad Younis could not get much from the reticent young man. But the rusting cameras hanging around told the story On March 15, evening,...

Popularly known as Yasmeen after her lead role in the famous serial Eemandaar telecasted from Doordarshan Srinagar way back in 1990’s, Nirmal Dhar, now settled in Deharadun, has a deep wish to return to...

With six of its staffers down with Covid-19 infection, the newsroom has been closed for a week now. Masood Hussain narrates how while covering it, the dreaded virus caught up with the Kashmir Life...