Media

by Masood Hussain For a greenhorn reporter, it was quite an excitement to sit on a protest in September 1989 outside the main gate of the erstwhile Sherghari Fort, housing the state legislative assembly, with...

  Artist Masood Hussain’s depiction of current crisis in Kashmir is both painful and thoughtful expression.  Saima Bhat reports The sight of overcrowded Ward 8 of SMHS hospital Srinagar, where mostly pellet hit kids were treated,...

Before it could trigger uprising in Arab world toward 2010 ending, the social media blitz had already made 2010 Kashmir summer a digital upheaval. Six years after, as another seething summer unfolded in valley...

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...

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...

What kind of a life a comedian lives is something everybody wants to know. Nuzhat Mushtaq talks to one such comedian to understand struggle behind the smiles Shabeer Hakak, 37, opens the door of his...

What happened on March 23, 1987 in Kashmir is even missing from newspaper archives. Shakir Mir painstakingly swifts through whatever material is available to understand how media covered Kashmir’s most talked about elections On a...

Come winters and Kashmir’s traditional storytellers would get instantly busy, not in so distant past. In absence of the modern tools of entertainment, storytellers were in demand and the tradition survived generations of occupation...

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...

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...

The skewed coverage of Kashmir floods by Delhi media generated massive ire and suspicion against journalists, preventing even local media from recording their own history, reports Muhammad A Raafi Photojournalists in Kashmir are a daredevil...

Chances are you might have come across Xaid Film videos many times and shared a laugh too. Saima Bhat meets the brain behind these funny videos to tell his story At 18 this Pampore teenager...

A picture is worth a thousand words. True. But ever thought who are these guys who risk their lives, work in extremely dangerous conditions, inside world’s most volatile areas, under the deep seas, in...

Using objects retrieved from September 2014 floods students of Music and Fine Arts College Srinagar told stories at an international art exhibition in Kerala. Saima Rashid reports their efforts After September 7, 2014 floods students...

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...