Eve Teasing: A growing menace
Shaheen Rahim
With modernization creeping into our society, the immoral acts of eve teasing have taken a startle turn in Kashmir. Not to talk...
Redirection needed
Zamir AhmadA harsh reality of our society is the large number of orphans and destitute women who have nobody to look upto for their...
Dr Parray, Superannuates
by Irtif Lone
It's midnight already. I am to write. I write. I stop. I start thinking. Should I. Can I? I ask myself. I nod...
Order in the face of mayhem
Danish RashidJapan has seen one of the worst natural calamities in the recent history which has devastated towns and villages. A terrible earthquake, which...
Regional influence
S. RehmanThe decisive strength of regional parties as, without a shred of doubt, could be deciphered from the recent poll events and their obvious...
Flawed policy
Dr. Bashir A DablaIn a story about migrant pundits (published in kashmirLife dated April 2, 2011) a Kashmiri Pandit retired government teacher based in...
Student Protests: A New Phenomenon
By: Waseem Parveez Dar
Though protests are more of a norm than an exception in this conflict torn state, for last month it has taken...
The charade of interlocution
by Raees-ul-Hamid Paul
To the majority of those, whose eyeballs remain stared at developments in Kashmir, North Block ostensibly seems to have woken up from...
When Vajpayee Saved Me From Being Lynched
by Iftikhar Gilani
The first time I saw former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee face-to-face was when riots had broken out in the Nizamuddin locality in...
Unemployment – truths and beyond
Unemployment is one of the major issues that concerns the present government in Jammu and Kashmir and has almost equally agitated the regimes of the past. Every now and then statistics are thrown at our face telling us how difficult it is to create employment opportunities for everyone.
Eureka Time!
Irtif Lone
And the government finally had this one eureka moment in store before upcoming assembly elections. Whatever had gone wrong in the last five...
Why Babri Beoul Symbolises Kashmir Ramzan?
by M J Aslam
Kashmiris have a rich tradition of ending their daily fast at sunset in the holy month of Ramdhan with a sweet...
Punitive Retrieval
by Shahnawaz Khan
Do the rule makers know that someone can lose a document, like a degree certificate or a passport, in an accident or...
Aam Aadmi then, VIP now!
On 26 November, 2012 a political party was launched in Delhi. And on 8th December, 2013 it created history, which would be remembered for...
Letter to Narendra Modi, from Kashmir!
Irtif Lone
Dear Narendra Modi Ji,
I have had this urge to write to you for a long time now. Or probably it looks long since...
