Mansur Al Hallaj’s Kashmir Sojourn
Islam’s controversial Sufi, poet and teacher Mansoor Al-Ḥallāj (858–922), who was brutally executed by the Abbasid caliphate for political reasons rather than his ecstatic...
Kashmir: Career Coercion
With career options shrinking to quite a few in Kashmir, scores of students are attempting to achieve targets their parents failed to hit for...
Al-Biruni’s Kashmir
Mehmood Gaznavi attempted to wrest Kashmir in the eleventh century twice and failed. The failed invasions, however, gave the Gaznavid court a lot of...
Kashmir’s Bakshi Era
In her book, A Fate Written On Matchboxes, Hafsa Kanjwal, a Kashmir-origin American scholar, revisits the structure and systems in the decade-old rule by...
Tamed, Not Caged
Chitralekha Zutshi’s book, Sheikh Abdullah – The Caged Lion of Kashmir is by far the most perceptive work on Abdullah but is short of...
1270s: Marco Polo’s Kashmir
Italian traveller Marco Polo visited Kashmir somewhere in 1271-75 and recorded a few passages about the life and culture of a place rendered inaccessible...
Kashmir’s Oil Pressers
Before edible oil extraction was mechanised, Kashmir had a roaring cottage industry of traditional oil pressers who would use bullocks to convert various seeds...
630 AD: Hiuen Tsang’s Kashmir
In search of the text and practices of his faith, Chinese Buddhist monk Hiuen Tsang spent two years in Kashmir somewhere around 630 AD....
Kashmir In the Fourth Century BC
Years after Alexander entered India, Indo-Greek relations cemented to the extent that the Greek kings appointed emissaries and ambassadors in the region. Megasthenes, one...
Costs of a Social Media Post
A student’s social media post triggered a crisis forcing the administration to quickly take legal action and intervene to prevent escalation of tensions, reports...
‘Now AI Helps 3D Printing Right Drugs for the Right Patient in the Right...
Dr Mir Javid Iqbal, a Kashmir scientist serving US pharma major Moderna in its Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics vertical tells Kashmir Life Science Talks...
Kashmir Colleges: Empty Classrooms
The colleges across Kashmir are exhibiting a historic nosedive in new admissions, a trend evading a clear reason. In an attempt to deconstruct the...
Pul Se Pul Tak: Rediscovering The City of Bridges
Broadcast journalist, Iqra Akhoon who produced a rare and well-received heritage web series focusing on the life and times around the historic bridges of Srinagar, jots...
Lured to New Languages
Amid the diversity of languages spoken and written in Jammu and Kashmir, the new generation is picking the non-native languages to manage better livelihoods...
NEP’s Flip Side
Currently in vogue, the ambitious and modern NEP-2020 has a huge flip side too, reports Aiman Fayaz
In 2022, the government implemented a new education policy...
