My Unfinished Assignment
by Syed Asma
In June 2013 I proposed of having an interview with Mehbooba Mufti. In politics, Mehbooba is a great success story. Being an...
Hunting Stories
From war in Afghanistan to political unrest of Nepal, from developmental issues in Loas and Cambodia to conflict in Kashmir, Syed Nazakat has covered...
Talking Images
A group of artists recently organised one day photography exhibition in Srinagar with an aim to provide platform to budding photographers. Known as Art–Surpassing...
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...
Murmurs Of A Political Thriller
Irfan Mehraj
When mainstream Indian film-makers zoom their cameras on any political turmoil scouring the subcontinent’s landscape they come up with two visions. One is...
Symphony of Discord
Zubin Mehta’s upcoming concert Ehsaas-e-Kashmir is in controversy. While the German embassy see it as an apolitical musical event, separatists smell a rat and...
Artist By Chance
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...
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...
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...
The Pepper VOICES
I ntroduced at the peak of summer 2010 unrest, the Jammu and Kashmir government has time and again lauded itself for using a...
Curfewing Media
Gagging mass media has been an age old practice to stop people from knowing what they are supposed to. With internet, a new edifice...
Band Paether
Neither is music new to the land of Habba Khatoon nor the debate over its status in Muslim societies. Then why all of a...
Newsy Newsmakers
The year 2012 saw the addition of many new newspapers, expansions and major non-local media houses flying to Srinagar to set up a base....
A New Media Evolves
The year 2012 saw evolution of mass media which constructively narrated the largely ignored stories of atrocities committed on common people in Kashmir conflict...
Brand Kashmir
Scenic landscapes of Kashmir valley coupled with a rich cultural heritage is increasingly becoming the flavour of television commercials with a number of producers...
