Opinion

By Saima Bhat In ideal world children often show their scars as medals. But if the kid is from Kashmir, born during troubling 80s, then the concept of medal changes altogether. For him/her the biggest medal...

Mohammad Raafi Kashmiris visiting Kolkata in large numbers during winters is nothing new, it is simply part of economic migration. However, last week when Kashmiris, including a large number of students, turned Kolkata streets green,...

Riyaz Ul Khaliq “My son achieved purpose of his life,” summed up mother of Dawood who died fighting Indian forces in South Kashmir. “Why should I shed tears, my son made my path easy to...

Mohammad Raafi In conflict zones like Kashmir, news and information gets buried due to the pressure from conflicting parties, collusion of the news source with various agencies or simply because of lack of will to...

Shakir Mir A string of incidents that took place in the recent past signals to something very ominous. In the realm of words and expressions, an unrecognizable threat lurks round the corner. In absence of...

Mohammad Raafi Unnecessary hue and cry by rightwing BJP backed Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) over a peaceful event on Afzal Guru and Maqbool Bhat in New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University is uncalled for. It is...

 Saima Bhat The moment photographs of Owais Bashir Malik’s mutilated body, an engineering student who went missing on January 12, became public, uptown’s quite Peerbagh area seethed with anger. Instantly, rumour mills started working overtime...

Riyaz Ul Khaliq Praise thy Lord! With the demise of former Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, the ‘North Pole-South Pole’ alliance of two ideologically diverse unionist parties in Jammu and Kashmir has apparently concluded. It...

by Iftikhar Gilani In early 2005, when Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was at the helm of affairs, I was returning to Srinagar from apple rich city of Sopore, sitting on the front seat of a TATA...

Tasavur Mushtaq A midnight message in December woke me from deep sleep. With half shut eyes, a blurred image of 2016 appeared on my cellphone was surprising. For a moment, I wasn’t able to comprehend...

Shakir Mir In a world with expanding internet penetration and increased access to preferred TV channels, the culture of movie-watching has been taken to the next level. Kashmir is not isolated from this phenomenon playing out...

Mohammad Raafi Kashmir is a sad story of non-implemented UN resolutions and broken promises. Interestingly, the theme of World Human Rights day 2015, commemorated by the United Nations, was: Our Rights, Our Freedoms, Always. The theme...

Shams Irfan Finally the suspense is over. Thanks to Modi, Kashmir is richer by 80 thousand crores. Hours before Modi landed in Kashmir and addressed an impressively colourful crowd, there was visible enthusiasm among PDP...