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Media

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Behind the Frostbitten Frames

While producing a mini-documentary series on Kashmir’s Winter Business, the challenging assignment to the youngest member of the Kashmir Life newsroom was too heavy a weight. But getting into the frostbitten frames in a...

Melody In Music

Mixing modern melody with prose and poetry, Kashmir’s new-age singers and musicians have resurrected folk songs in a different way. Creating their own platforms, this new breed of artists is reaching out to audiences...

Half A Decade Later

 Readers, It is sheer coincidence that we have Shahid Afridi on our front page for all the controversy his sixers created for Kashmir. And it is the first issue of our sixth year. Yes, Kashmir...

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 education. Born to Syed Rafiudin Bukhari, a professor and a...

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...

A Short Flight

His father had died 15 days before he was shot. His wife died less than two years later, leaving their three orphans and his aged mother in extreme poverty and shock. Hamidullah Dar reports. When...

Manipulative or Reality TV?

Young children are quickly switching from watching cartoons, to watching “reality” shows. Khurram Rasool takes a closer look at what this could mean for your children.She’s glued to the TV and she’s biting her...

Small Is Beautiful

He paints small objects in his small world. He paints anything from sand grains to canvas besides injection vials and bulbs from inside. Sameer Hussain Dar has featured in many TV programmes including on...

No room for the newsroom

ARSHID MALIK George Orwell wrote the lines, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” He understood that if you can control what people know about history, if you...

Jammu’s Women Reporters

On Women’s Day 2020,  journalist Pallavi Sareen details the unfair ratio of fair gender in Jammu’s media This women’s day, 29-year-old Shilpa Thakur is planning to inspire young girls from colleges across Jammu city to...

Two Videos, Two Stories

For the last many years, social media is triggering decision-making within the government and society. Last week demonstrated it yet again when the Jammu and Kashmir administration reacted to two videos, both concerning the...

Mann Ka Radio?

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...

Scripted in pain

A calligrapher with local Urdu dailies, Ghulam Nabi Mahajan was killed after watching his son die at the hands of troopers during a crack down in his locality. Shazia Yousuf traces story of Mahajan...
Inside view of media centre Srinagar.

Back To The Beginning

As the news hunger peaks in Kashmir, closed for three weeks, the media is consistently exploring options of collecting and disseminating news, reports Masood Hussain Till the militancy led the newsroom of the Radio Kashmir...