A Statesman
In 1947, Kashmir was literally independent for many fortnights. After rumours about the major princely state joining India, there was Poonch rebellion and tribal...
Women In Kashmir Tehreek
After centuries of suppression when Kashmir launched its struggle to regain the life of dignity and honour, it was not a male-only battle. Dr...
Sheikh Abdullah, A CIA Profile
April 8, 1964 J&K state government released Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah after withdrawing the Kashmir conspiracy case. It was a major development that was written...
1947: The Last Letter
At the peak of 1947 Jammu Massacre, a 17-year old bride in Bhaderwah was waiting for her professor husband with their midnight summer’s child...
Jumhooriyat
Kashmir Life desk offers snapshots of the assembly elections that J&K witnessed post-partition
Unlike mainland India, the world’s largest democracy has one peculiar thing that...
Silently Similar
Changing masters and the political geographies have not altered one routine, the summer tensions. Masood Hussain reports the peak crises that have frequented Kashmir...
That Televised War
It has been 17 years since India and Pakistan fought a ‘localized’ war over the hills between Zoji La and Siachen glacier. Following Vajpayee’s...
The Gilgit Rebel
From Gilgit to Kupwara, Srinagar to Jammu and eventually from Muzaffarabad to London, Amanullah Khan Astori lived an eventful life to preach third-option for...
Over to Professor
After he was barred from teaching in 1986, the disgruntled Prof Abdul Gani Bhat began lecturing on politics in a series of covert residential...
Battleground Amira Kadal
Being central to Kashmir and to the governance structure, Amira Kadal was always in limelight. That is perhaps why all the anti-NC forces joined...
The Big Jama’at
Had Jama’at-e-Islami not offered its resource base and the vast organizational skeleton, MUF might not had been as important as it eventually proved, reveals...
D-Day: March 23, 1987
Muslim United Front had worked more on road-shows using the raw emotion of people and not on the process of elections. This contributed to...
Ghulam Mohammad Mir
Ghulam Mohammad Mir
(September 21, 1949 - December 16, 1993)
A man, who jumped into politics, contested an election unsuccessfully and was eventually killed as a...
Crisis Manager!
He literally kept Jama’at-e-Islami alive after its entire leadership was jailed post-1987 state assembly results. Mohammad Raafi talks to Mohammad Ashraf Khan to know...
Assassinated
After a new situation took over Kashmir within a year after the March 1987 elections, many players from the unionist camp were killed in...
