Trout Take Off In Kashmir
Introducing trout was one of the many contributions that Raj made during Kashmir’s darkest era in the nineteenth century. Offering details of how the...
Subhan Hajam’s Legendary Battle
As singing got into dancing and the nautch into prostitution, the Kashmir governor’s in Sikh and Dogra eras saw pleasure and money in the...
‘I Studied at A Jabri School Where We Had Good Teachers’
Former Director SKIMS, Dr M Sultan Khuroo is just not a successful gastroenterologist only. During the last four decades, he discovered Hepatitis-E in Kashmir,...
Taming Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) has seven global strains and some of them are defying the most modern therapies that science has evolved. Still one of the...
‘Leishmaniasis Is A Poor Man’s Disease So Big Co’s Merck or Pfizer Don’t Touch...
Kashmir scientist, Dr Hira Lal Nakhasi, currently a Director at US’s FDA, has worked to solve many riddles but his key contribution has been...
Separating the Entangled
As Kashmir turned abnormal, the parents of a 15-year-old literally bundled and flew him to London for studies. Separated from home and his parents,...
‘Doctors’ At War
Almost 200 medical students who were rescued from Ukraine early this year have kept their fingers crossed about what the future holds for them....
Srinagar 1868
An Assistant Surgeon in Her Majesty’s 36th Foot, John Frederick Foster (1839-1869) spent almost a quarter in 1868 summer in Kashmir, primarily for health...
South Kashmir 1868
An Assistant Surgeon in Her Majesty’s 36th Foot, John Frederick Foster (1839-1869) spent almost a quarter in 1868 summer in Kashmir, primarily for health...
Haider Dughlat: Kashmir’s Kazakh Ruler
Had Babur’s cousin, Mirza Haider Dughlat not invaded Kashmir, the central Asian and Mughal history would have been less understood, nearly half a millennium...
Digital Dependence
A new survey has vindicated the naysayers that children's overexposure to cell phones and computers for education and recreation is seriously compromising the capacities...
The GMC I Know
Leading gastroenterologist and researcher, Dr M Sultan Khuroo entered the Government Medical College, Srinagar, in its fourth batch in 1962. In this write-up, he...
Kashmir’s Manto
A literary genius, Saadat Hasan Manto was born to a trader family that had migrated to Punjab during Sikh rule. Even though the greatest...
Inside Kashmir’s Seminary Network
Kashmir’s formal education system owes its evolution to medieval Khanqah education and Maktab teaching. Kashmir still has an impressive seminary network and Dr Nisar...
1873’s Srinagar: Kashmir’s Rulers
Son of a British army officer, Henry Walter Bellew (August 30, 1834 – July 26, 1892) was a doctor and East India Company’s top...
