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Saturday, May 18, 2024
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Interview

This is a simple Q and A on issues that matter with the experts and practitioners who hold the answers. Interviews are across the various facets of life including politicians, artists, businessmen, academics and social activists.

Supriya Sahu. KL Image: Special Arrangement

‘DD-Kashir Has 2.5 Cr Viewers’

Supriya Sahu, Director General Doordarshan on game show KBC and the issues related with the DD-Kashir KASHMIR LIFE (KL): Can Kashmiri version of KBC help...

‘Article 35A enabled the transformation of the economic structure’

Foremost economist and Jammu and Kashmir’s former finance minister Dr Haseeb A Drabu wrote a series of articles on the 35A and the different...

‘The stand-off between India and Pakistan will have fall-out in Kashmir’

In a telephonic interview, the strategic affairs’ expert, author, and the editor of Force magazine Pravin Sawhney tells Saima Bhat Kashmir will remain on...

‘You can’t get intelligence about what is inside the mind of a suicide bomber’

In the wake of Lethpora attack and the subsequent development, Saima Bhat interviewed A S Dulat, the former RAW Chief and one of the...

‘There is a perception that Kashmir has limited working days and semester system overburdens...

The University of Kashmir’s first directly appointed Registrar Dr Nisar Ahmad Mir tells Mir Suneem KASHMIR LIFE (KL): You are the first directly appointed Registrar...

‘Electoral politics has become an obstacle to the resolution of the issue’

IAS 2009 topper Dr Shah Faesal tells Masood Hussain hours after quitting the coveted service KASHMIR LIFE (KL): A student who became a doctor in...

‘Transgenders’ Are Also The Creation Of Allah, And They Too Have Rights’

Aijaz Bund, Kashmir’s only LGBTQ activist and author of Hijras of Kashmir, the first ethnographic study of its kind, tells Umer Sofi in an...

‘How can you suppress a whole state or a whole community, and for how...

Filmmaker Ashvin Kumar did seven films, and four are on Kashmir only. His latest film has been given an A-certificate by the Censor Board....

‘We Are Installing 11.5 Lakh Pre-paid Meters’

PDD Chief Engineer Hashmat Qazi tells Saima Bhat KASHMIR LIFE (KL): Where are the problems in transmission setup? Hashmat Qazi (HQ): Against the restricted demand of...

‘Unfortunately Mr Modi has squandered that opportunity’

Noted editor Siddharth Varadarajan was in Srinagar to deliver a lecture in memory of Shameem Ahmad Shameem, one of Kashmir’s bold editors and a...

‘I want to die with my shoes on. I want to keep working and...

Prof Rita Jitendra was talking about her literary contributions live on Doordarshan’s Good Morning Kashmir that she suffered cardiac arrest and was declared ‘brought...

‘Gujjars have been marginalised and neglected by both the regions’

Choudhary Zulfikar Ali is a Rajouri lawmaker who has been a minister in the just collapsed PDP government. He tells Umar Mukhtar the crisis...

‘Radical Right will deal Kashmir through force and nothing else’

Filmmaker, journalist and human rights activist Tapan K Bose visited Kashmir to report on the state of civil liberties in the 1990s when the...

‘In the vast desert of red blood, and pale death poetry is the only...

In this city of lights Who would’ve imagined gassed darkness would reign? This nightmare had never hit me Had the suspicion ever struck you? Curfewed Friday Huzaifa Pandit is a...

‘Shujaat’s Killings Has Instilled Fear”

Kashmir’s most popular journalist Yusuf Jameel tells Umar Mukhtar KASHMIR LIFE (KL): What is the difference between the 1990s and 2018 as far as coverage...