Resume Talks
Every time the governments in India and Pakistan resume diplomacy and wish to move forward on issues of mutual interest, non-state actors get it...
Role Models
Last week the video of Abdul Qayoom Wani, President Jammu and Kashmir Teachers Forum (JKTF), calling himself a Jigardar boasting his lineage and wealth,...
Decide Fast
It has been nearly a fortnight now that J&K is without an elected government and governor N N Vohra is ruling the state. The...
Dogged Society
Last week internet was flooded with pictures of a Baramullah boy’s mauled face attacked by a pack of canine dogs. The boy is said...
Letter From Editor
We were in the process of finalizing the design of our regular issue when the news of Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s demise set...
Letter From Editor
Had this special New Year publication included the politics of the place and its governance, it would have been completely different. Regardless of its...
Free Lunches
Quietly, in the last three decades, a major shift in Kashmir’s food fundamentals took place—the onus of feeding the population phenomenally shifted from growers...
Letter From Editor
Every winter, for the last three consecutive years, the Kashmir Life newsroom was gung-ho every time the snowflakes would create the visual maze from...
Improve Accountability
State education ministry’s effort to restore the pristine dignity and social status of the teacher is welcome. It is a fact that material rat...
Billing Blues
The PDP-BJP coalition government has finally announced it will adopt the Food Security Act and after legislating on it in the fast approaching budget...
Prioritise Ecology
The ruling coalition government is apparently trying to evolve its policies on various fronts. The just-announced developmental plan announced by Prime Minister is helping...
Stay Healthy
For the last fortnight, the news that has dominated the front-pages was about a Delhi media house, routinely carrying over a developmental comparison survey...
Tolerating Intolerance
At the end of Modi’s much-hyped Kashmir visit this past week Mufti Sayeed was hopeful, to at least draw some bargaining chips home, to...
Power Pack
In the last nearly 350 weeks of our uninterrupted publication, we might have published more than 20 thematic issues on various subjects concerning Kashmir,...
Winter Woes
Come autumn, Kashmir gets overwhelmed by dullness that nature paints on its landscape. With the summer charm over, the natives start preparations for the...