Rediscovering The Neighbour
As the contagion finally started its spread to the Kashmir periphery, the affected population has started reviving and re-understanding the traditional support structure within...
‘I Studied at A Jabri School Where We Had Good Teachers’
Former Director SKIMS, Dr M Sultan Khuroo is just not a successful gastroenterologist only. During the last four decades, he discovered Hepatitis-E in Kashmir,...
Squeezed
Lack of space and a huge rush at the chemotherapy ward at SKIMS adds to the sufferings of hundreds of cancer patients, Syed Asma...
A Generation In Crisis
A kick to look for the thrill, feel good and forget troubles, a disproportionate number of youth are in substance abuse. Often started in...
Malwan’s Braid Choppers
Mysterious hair cutting incidents started in central India early this year and literally followed the road to Kashmir. Restricted to restive South Kashmir, Kulgam...
Formalizing Business
In wake of the crisis over the quality of medicines that government purchases for its hospitals in Kashmir, Omar Abdullah government revived Congress’s plan...
Pandemic’s Emotional Toll
In Kashmir, Covid-19 hasn’t infected and killed people alone. It has broken families or pushed them into crises that are unlikely to settle. Saima...
Dangerous Delay
A respected religious leader wanted to build a maternity hospital in Anantnag. After spending Rs 2.86 crore on a huge building, the Trust founder...
High Way To Destruction
Kashmir is losing a generation to drugs, with medicinal opiates being the most abused substances to get a high. Social stigmatisation is keeping many...
Antibiotic Apocalypse
by Raees ul Hamid Paul
Striking a cautionary note at the end of his Noble speech on December 11, 1945, Alexander Fleming had said, “The...
Darkest Days
By: Shams Irfan
The small lobby outside causality ward of Srinagar’s SMHS hospital is filled with anxious looking faces. With each arrival of ambulance, ferrying bullet...
Manufacturing Doctors
Every summer, the CET set off a chain of reports about wrongdoings in the process. This year as the High Court sought status of...
Technology Addiction
Parents are frequently talking about their kids using smart phones and other communication gadgets for ‘time-pass’. It is gradually leading to addiction and to...
Being Covid-19 Positive
Avoided by family and isolated at hospitals, the patients go through a gruelling ordeal on their path to recovery, reveals Saima Bhat
On March 16,...
Educator Par Excellence
A trained engineer and a passionate teacher holds his class in an open ground well before the sunrise and this model of teaching in...
