Digital Teaching
While the smart classrooms and the Skype teaching are two parallel forms of digital education, teachers caught between unrest and examinations tagged the two...
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...
Jail Lawyer
Arrested while in the first year of graduation way back in 2013, a young man has cleared his graduation, acquired a law degree and...
“My all hopes of a better future were brought to zero in Kashmir”
Syed Basharat Ahmad Shah, a renowned veterinary scientist from Bijbehara who was recently made honorary judge in Bonn, Germany, tells Saima Bhat how systemic...
Lost Opportunities
With instability and turmoil frequenting Kashmir, more than 200 thousand students at the college and university level are facing a crippling crisis as their...
IMPRISONED SCHOLARLY
Thousands of people were jailed in Kashmir since 1990’s. Their miserable lives in confinement notwithstanding; scores of them converted their cells into study centers...
Another Sheikh Abdullah
In Kashmir, the prestigious Aligarh Muslim University is linked to two towering personalities, both named Sheikh Abdullah. While one, almost every Kashmiri is aware...
Understanding Jhelum
Last September’s devastating floods left an impression on young Saqib Gulzar’s mind. In less than a year’s time, he came up with an award...
Dreams to Live
Despite tragedies knocking at her door at regular intervals she didn’t abandon dreaming. Aspiring to become a teacher, this Islamabad girl is torn between...
Education Experiments
The first major crisis that better-performing students from poor family backgrounds face is between 14 and 18 years of age when parents seek their...
Sozni Scientist
Born to disabled Sozni artist parents Shabir Mir picked up threads and a needle when he was just 11 to work his way out...
College Abundance
All of sudden, there is a huge race for more colleges. With additional 52 colleges announced by the governor in recent months, the number...
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,...
Saving Namda
An 18-year-old girl’s invention helped save the centuries old art of Namda making. A sports and science fiction buff, she already has her kitty...
Kashmir’s Kota
Thanks to private coaching centres Parrypora is host to diverse aspirations generating Rs 200 crore business. Zafar Aafaq reports
It is 5:25 pm and uptown...
