Walaykum Salam Ladishah Drav
Confined to radio and television studio’s Ladhishah were once the popular street performers, enriching Kashmir with satire and humour. Aliya Bashir reports
Asalaam Malaiqum Ladishah...
Skinned
Fur and furriers were a part of Kashmir’s economy, providing employment to thousands of people. A blanket ban on fur trade made it extinct...
Moved to greener pastures
Cattle grazers in villages who were a common feature of life in rural Kashmir have given up the occupation with changing lifestyles. Mir Farhat...
Missing paper trail
The art of producing one of the most long-lasting and durable papers was mastered in Kashmir long before the advent of paper mills. But...
Hay days
A few strings of straw woven to make slippers were common footwear, not so long ago. Waseem Ahad reports.
Whenever Mohammad Akbar Pala, 70,...
Last Days of Maqbool Butt
Kashmir Life reproduces the article published in The Week, a Malyalam Manorama publication (February 19-25, 1984), a week after Maqbool Butt was hanged in...
Chasm in the bonhomie
For long Iran and India have had warm friendly relations. However, the shift in Indian foreign policy is creating a wedge between the two...
The Fall of The Feudal’s?
What has become of the erstwhile Zaildar families who dominated the society till the 1950s? Have they reconciled with the loss of paisa, power...
Proud Kashmiri
It is a family that never sent any of its wards to any business schools, but in last 150 years, it has evolved a...
Masters In Uniform
The allegations that the army had resorted to taking Kashmiris on forced labour (Begaar) during the last two decades has opened the historical wounds...
10 controversies of ‘09
While Shopian dominated 2009, there were other controversies too that hogged the headlines. Haroon Mirani lists the top 10.
CHINESE VISA ROW
The year 2009 has...
Mystery of Accession
For over two decades now, Kashmiri separatists are observing October 27 as the ‘black day’ to mark the landing of Indian army in 1947....
Nehru’s Love for Kashmir
Edwina-Nehru relationship and its impact on J&K’s fate is a favourite debate for historians, but India does not seem ready to watch what it...
‘Abdullah had agreed to join Congress’
In the concluding part of the interview with Shahnawaz Khan senior journalist Ved Bhasin talks about his first hand knowledge of important Kashmiri leaders
(Sheikh...
Riots changed J&K politics
Journalist Ved Bhasin has completed six decades in active journalism, but the editor of Kashmir Times has had an equal proximity to politics. Politics,...
