A Reporters’ Editor
by Suhail A Shah
On April 4, 2012 Kashmir’s prominent journalist and correspondent for the Agence France Presse (AFP), Izhar Wani, breathed his last after...
Mir Syed Shujaat Bukhari
by Umar Mukhtar
The journey of Shujaat Bukhari’s life started in his native village Kreeri in Baramulla, which he left after finishing his secondary school...
The Shujaat, You Do Not Know
Kashmir lost Shujaat Bukhari, one of its most prominent journalists to a brutal attack virtually on the eve of Eid. Masood Hussain who had...
Rusting Lenses
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...
‘Managing’ Media
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...
“My cartoons dragged me into court thrice”
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...
Kashmir: In Formation
The ‘writer’-abundant ruling party wants to take its image-making department to new heights as a model so it appointed ten directors in less than...
Shot in Darkness
Even after he raised his camera in the air to prove his identity, an indifferent cop shot a full cartridge of pellets at his...
Box Cameras to Selfies
They have witnessed Kashmir’s changing fortunes through their camera lenses for about five decades. Nazir Ahmad Rather talks to two ace photographers who still...
“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...
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...
Walls Do Speak
A group of artists joined hands to restore abandoned structures in tourist hot-spots across Kashmir. But that is not all they intend to do....
Touseef Mustafa
The picture of a sub-inspector trying to strangulate a senior photojournalist testifies what media persons have to go through in a place like Kashmir....
Media Quacks
It can happen only in Kashmir. A fruit vendor runs a news website, self-styled journalists operating around two hundred whatapps news groups, all boasting...
Not Collaterals!
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,...
