“There is a strange emotional attachment and an unexplainable affinity between Kashmiris and Pakistanis.”
Nadia Mehr, who became first Pakistani girl to earn a doctorate from Kashmir, tells Rahiba R Parveen that staying in conflict torn Kashmir was...
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...
“Our education sector is full with wives, daughters and acquaintances of bureaucrats.”
Abdul Qayoom Wani, a resident of Wasun Baghi, Tangmarg, after completing B A, B Ed joined education department as a teacher. In 1991, along...
Marketing Peace!
Can innovative marketing techniques help bring peaceful resolution to Kashmir issue? It can, argues first time writer Mehboob Makhdoomi, a management research fellow from...
Reading, Heart!
Disturbed by what patients in Kashmir have to face in wake of ineffective and slow healthcare, Sagheer Wani, a young qualified engineer and a...
Model in Mountains
At seven his father became part of Kashmir’s surging collateral damage and at 14 he was formally admitted to an orphanage. Nine years later,...
Mission Commercialised
Running from government leased land, ‘charitable mission’ schools in Srinagar charge huge amount from students in the name of education. Syed Asma reports the...
Who Is Killing Them?
One of the foremost features of Kashmir’s strife is that tens of thousands of people, men, women and youth, started moving out of their...
A Silent Takeover
J&K’s school education bill is going through the roof: Rs 2940 crore in 2012-13 to Rs 3238 crore next fiscal. For 12 classes, there...
The Scholarship story
A year after the 2010 summer unrest, New Delhi announced a Special Scholarship Scheme to encourage students from J&K to pursue higher education. Two...
Playing With Future
A complete lack of infrastructure and official apathy has forced two schools in north Kashmir to transform commercial shops into classrooms. While the students...
A diligent teacher
In a state where people invent excuses to take a day off from work, a government teacher in a south Kashmir village has employed...
An Evolving Trust
Away from public gaze, a chain of schools across J&K has built massive infrastructure with community participation to educate more than 100000 boys and...
Belling The Cat
The state government has set up a monitoring committee to evaluate the infrastructure of private coaching centers and accordingly revise their registration annually. While...
Shining Shaima
Shaima Qureshi was one of the recipients of JK Young Scientist Award conferred upon ten scientists from Kashmir valley at the recently concluded Science...
