“I do not believe internet restrictions are consistent with human rights law obligations of...
United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression David Kaye, recently termed internet ban in Kashmir as collective punishment. In a Skype...
“I am trying to convince students to start their own units, like opening a...
A 1999 batch KAS officer, Shabnum Shah Kamli, heads state’s Department of Technical Education (DTE).She tells Syed Asma, despite huge potential to change lives,...
“Sheikh Abdullah wanted to be with a secular India, not the India where a...
Mohammad Akbar Lone, third time MLA from Sumbal in Sonwari belt, and former Speaker of state’s legislative assembly, has managed to survive through the...
“When we seek to introspect dialectics of any process, both its negative and positive...
Dr Mir Khalid was born into a prominent civil services’ family in Safakadal, Srinagar. His clinical research has appeared in the British Journal of...
“In 90’s young Kashmiris were angry but scared and now they are angry and...
Former BBC journalist Andrew Whitehead covered Kashmir conflict extensively during troubled 90’s. On his recent visit to Srinagar, Saima Rashid talks to him about...
“Why did not 93% people vote and why so many persons came out to...
Shantmanu, the senior IAS officer who is state’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) was depressed the whole day on April 9 when an unprecedented situation...
“The future of car business lies in rural Kashmir”
Irfan Ahmad is an engineer who has been into car selling for 27 years. As a principle player in Kashmir’s car market, he tells...
“I cannot justify things”
Ace cinematographer Tasaduq Mufti’s formal joining of politics is the new son-rise in Kashmir politics. In a freewheeling interview with Masood Hussain, Mufti Jr...
“Without a proper road network in place, I am trying to manage traffic, so...
Sargun Shukla, a 2012 Punjab cadre IPS officer became first female Senior Superintendent of Police to manage Srinagar’s traffic. In a conversation with Saima...
“Allah on my side”
After spending 35 years as teacher, former college principal Prof S K Bhalla has started his crusade against corruption in the system. Apart from...
“Instead of reporting to the Chief Minister, certain PDP ministers report to their RSS...
Termed king-slayer after he defeated Dr Farooq Abdullah, Tariq Hameed Karra resigned PDP at the peak of 2016 unrest. After a two quarter pause,...
“Dokhas are seasonal and need to be dismantled once nomads move out”
Riding Modi wave in 2014, Lal Singh deserted Congress and joined BJP to eventually become state’s health minister. After Ms Mufti took over in...
‘It was very difficult for India to retain Kashmir but that movement (Ikhwan) did...
From a top militant in Pakistan to becoming the lawmaker in J&K, Bandipore MLA Usman Majeed wore hats. The gun-wielding counter-insurgent once was the...
“I believe in coming years humorists will be the most sought after people, as...
Ayoub Sabir, a retired head master, who has written twenty books in three languages, is a known satirist. He tells Heena Muzzafar that art...
‘The strongest instinct to pick up the gun is political, not money or governance...
In the intermittent hot discussions on issues confronting J&K in the ongoing budget session, NC Working President and former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah made...
