Exceptional Mirzas’
On the state and status of governance and people in Kashmir prior and after the Dogra rule are a thick volume of letters in...
Kashmir Woman Honoured For Landmark Innovation
by Tahir Bhat
SRINAGAR: The President of India, Ram Nath Kovind bestowed Nari Shakti Puraskar on Kashmir woman innovator, Nasira Akhter on Tuesday, on...
Fleeing The War Theatre
As Russia finally invaded the NATO member, Ukraine, its weakest neighbour, scores of Kashmiris were caught in the medical campuses. While efforts are underway...
Samdanis’: Peshawar, Delhi, Lahore, Turkey
In the early nineteenth century, a Kashmir trader migrated to Peshawar and emerged a major businessman. His sons played a major role in India’s...
Manage This Happy Horror
Grades in examinations are no sure indicator of a student’s efficiency and capacity. For most of the higher studies institutions go for a separate...
Kashmir’s Forgotten ‘Spy’
In 1891, a Kashmiri cosmopolitan Sheikh Abdul Rasul was arrested in Bombay, jailed for nine months and deported to London, triggering a crisis in...
Kashmir: A Lawrence Speech
Walter R Lawrence, one of the most popular British India officers in Kashmir, known commonly as Lawrence Sahab, was an authority on a region...
Trendsetting Results
The results of the tenth and twelfth standard examination by the JK Board of School Education (BOSE) involving 150 thousand students offers some clear...
Virtual Game
With more and more kids getting access to fast internet and smartphones, the Covid19 initiated restrictions have created a new generation of youth who...
Khwaja Sanaullah Shawl
Father of freedom movement leader Sauddin Shawl, Khawaja Sanaullah Shawl was one of the most respected traders of his era with a chain of...
Kashmir 1823
British veterinarian, William Moorcroft (1767-1825), who played a key role in exploring Central Asia for the East India Company, spent a harsh winter in...
Virtual Costs
As Covid19 pushed the world towards the tiny phone screens, it has started severely impacting the new generation. Zakia Qurashi talks to experts to...
Dhaka Despatches
Kashmir’s desperation to have a doctor in a family helped Bangladesh emerge as the new destination for medical training. After a medical student's mysterious...
Hazratbal 1954
Roads and plenty of cars is a recent phenomenon. In this 1954 travelogue, Pearce Gervis explains how the huge floating gardens, rations and the...
Molvi Rasul Shah (1855-1909)
Mirwaiz Rasul Shah followed Sir Syed Ahmad Khan at a time when the educational deficit had started crippling Kashmiri Muslims, writes M J Aslam
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