Downgrading Red Zone
At one point of time, Hajin belt was emerging as Coronavirus hotbed. Though the belt continues wearing the red zone status, the numbers have...
Frontline Innovator
As Covid-19 spread and the government locked Kashmir down, Farooz Ahmad devoted his time to making face shields for the doctors and other frontline...
Why Bayt al-Mal Is The Most Relevant Community Institution During Pandemic?
by Umair Rashid
The Bayt al-Mal (literally means ‘the House for money’) is used as an equivalent for the Treasury House where public funds are...
Why The Pandemic Tests Our Federal Credentials?
by Basit Amin Makhdoomi
The advent of Covid-19 has not only put to test the health apparatus of our country but has also inflicted a...
Coronavirus Pandemic: What Are Covid Toes By The Way?
by Sheikh Umar Ahmad
Since the advent of Coronavirus, we have seen different phases of advances in Covid-19 research with every day new facts being...
‘We Are On The Brinks of Community Transmission’
Pulmonologist Dr Naveed Nazir Shah, as head of the Chest Diseases Hospital, is managing the main counter Covid-19 hospital in Kashmir. He tells Khalid...
Those Pock Marking Viruses
Battling diseases has been one of the few constants in life. One scourge was yet to be tackled that another appeared. In this long...
‘Lockdowns Will Not Block Covid-19 Transmission Completely’
Acclaimed scientist, Prof Mohammad Sultan Khuroo’s significant contribution include the discovery of Hepatitis-E virus in 1978 from Kashmir when 1700 of an estimated 52000...
Epidemic Killed Indus Valley Civilization?
Researchers have not been able to locate a single major factor for the disappearance of the Indus Valley Civilization other than waterborne disease. Cholera, David...
The Covid Collateral
While the entire focus is on preventing Covid-19 related fatalities, people are silently dying from treatable medical conditions and also because of the negligence...
A Hundred Years Later
The Spanish Flu that brought the world on its knees by killing almost five crore people exactly a century earlier has visited Kashmir also. Though...
‘We Will Have To Continue With Social Distancing Even After Lockdown’
Dr Javaid Malik, the head of the Chest Medicine at SKIMS Medical College Hospital Bemina tell Khalid Bashir Gura
KASHMIR LIFE (KL): What is the current status of...
A Pandemic, A Lesson
Slovenian philosopher sees the Covid-19 pandemic as an intellectual malaise that has exposed “the ultimate abyss of our being” and its remedy lies in...
5 Stages of Epidemic
by Slavoj Zizek
Maybe we can learn something about our reactions to the Coronavirus epidemics from Elisabeth Kübler-Ross who, in her On Death and Dying,...
Worried Warriors
Doctors, paramedics and biotechnology scholars, currently on the frontline in the battle against Covad-19are delivering efficiently. They, however, regret that the system, their management...
