Smouldering Summer
Six years after 2010 summer triggered Kashmir’s new age militancy, killing of a young rebel stirred up another summer of dissenting and bloodletting. With...
Unmoved
As Kashmir is getting into the fourth week of unrest following Burhan killing in Bamdoora down-south, nothing much is visible in response from the...
Pandemonium
In the ruckus over killings and blinding by security grid, political parties have talked a lot in last fortnight. But it is unlikely to...
Mine Mints
In the just concluded assembly session, J&K’s political class converted reforms into a threat to state’s special status and successfully sold it to scared...
Depressed Dangerously
Fast life, career rat race, destabilized families and the conflict have created such a mess of Kashmir’s mind that melancholy has become the new...
Dignity of Labour
Dr Haseeb A Drabu, J&K’s Labour & Employment Minister is working on an idea to improve the situation of private sector in such a...
Leave, Please!
For bulge of workforce working on contractual basis in government sector leave is an emotional issue. While their permanent counterparts enjoy all perks, they...
When Curtains Fall
As Durbar closes in Jammu for a six-month stint in Srinagar, Tasavur Mushtaq describes the scenes that set in as files started sleeping into...
Engaging NHPC
As certain information about NHPC’s operation in J&K were revealed through an RTI, Kashmir is back to its energy debate, singling out India’s hydropower...
Terror Square
Twenty six years after Handwara witnessed the first blood, two youth became the latest casualty, triggering a new chain of protests and killings in...
Issues on Table
Tasavur Mushtaq
Blazing sirens at 12 noon on April 4, finally announced the arrival of Mehbooba Mufti to the seat of power, the civil secretariat....
Newsy Nine
Takeover by a new PDP-BJP government was extra-ordinary phenomenon. After three months of tense wait and intense interactions between the allies, the new government...
Those Two Months…
As the demise of PDP patron created governance void in J&K, intriguing scenes unfolded in state officialdom currently camped in Jammu’s civil secretariat. The...
Dial for Help
It was because of a NGO’s sting that a Sopore based faith-healer’s dirty world was uncovered. Shakir Mir takes a look at the NGO’s...
“It is good to see people ask questions like how and where we are...
Director School Education Dr Shah Faesal, an IAS topper who wants to be remembered as an Iqbaliyat scholar, tells Saima Bhat that it is...