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
Mirwaiz...
Kashmir’s Canal Life 1954
Srinagar’s water bodies have historically remained a self-sustaining eco-system in which people lived, worked and thrived throughout. Life remained unchanged for a long time...
Kashmir’s Church Bells
The oldest Protestant Church over the Rustum Gari hill is being revived and renovated by the government under its smart city project. Constructed in...
Kashmir 1835
Carl Alexander Anselm Baron von Hügel (1795-1870), a prominent naturalist from Vienna spent more than five years in India. He spent part good time...
Shelling The Nut
People in the private and public sectors are working overtime to discover the endless opportunities that Kashmir’s famed walnut offers. If the nut is...
Kashmir 1877
A Bengal Medical Service professional, G C Ross spent some time in Kashmir in 1877. He wrote a couple of write-ups about the life,...
The Kangri Cancer
Not in so distant past, most of Kashmir lacked resources to even have adequate garments in winters. Kangri, the fire pot was the only...
Kashmir’s Plague Story
Plague like many other epidemics got imported into Kashmir. A Mitra, Kashmir’s erstwhile Chief Medical Officer of Kashmir treated the plague-infected and tackled the...
Defusing A Cripple
A labourer’s son had lost his arm while watching a scarp dealer struggle to extract valuable metals from an abandoned explosive device. It took...
A Forgotten Masjid
Son and daughter of Shah Jehan built complete premises for their teacher and spiritual guide on the hills of Kohi Maran within the Mughal...
Raja Sukh Jiwan Mal
Fierce resistance to the Afghan rule in Kashmir was led by a Punjab born Gujarati who adopted Kashmir and Kashmiris and eventually died for...
Disquiet In Medical Schools
With authorities opening a section of graduate and half of the postgraduate medical education berths to an All India Quota, most of the medical...
