The Exam Fever
Students who somehow reached home during the pandemic are being asked by their universities to return and appear in examinations. This too at a time...
Those Cholera Carnage’s
Unlike many other epidemics, the Cholera has been Kashmir’s resident killer for most of the nineteenth century when the bacteria would come with the...
Kashmir’s Map Shawls
Shawls woven in Kashmir were fashion statements on Paris streets early nineteenth century. But it took a long time for the buyers to understand...
OBE Is The Alternative
by Nazir Ahmad Gilkar and Iqra Majeed Shah
Kashmir personifies a systemic, normalised clampdown. The shutdowns are usually a 100 to 200 days affair in a year. These...
Frontline Innovator
As Covid-19 spread and the government locked Kashmir down, Farooz Ahmad devoted his time to making face shields for the doctors and other frontline...
Those Pock Marking Viruses
Battling diseases has been one of the few constants in life. One scourge was yet to be tackled that another appeared. In this long...
A Hundred Years Later
The Spanish Flu that brought the world on its knees by killing almost five crore people exactly a century earlier has visited Kashmir also. Though...
Covid Champions
Defying lock-down, curfew and the internet at snail-pace, scores of young men in Kashmir have offered amazing solutions to the various challenges triggered by...
‘People who benefit from the status quo try to kill innovations’
After his PhD from the JNU, Sheikh Fayaz Ahmad joined the School of Management of the Zhejiang University, in Hangzhou (China) as an Innovations...
A Viral Vocabulary
The pandemic caused by the invisible Coronavirus has started dictating a new value system as part of its etiquettes regime. In order to understand...
4G for Knowledge
In a world besieged by the virus, people are working from their homes, using the high-speed Internet. In Kashmir, more than 1.5 million students...
Surviving Epidemics
Most of the epidemics that Kashmir history has witnessed were imported and they thrived on unhygienic environs, indifferent rulers and a superstitious clergy, reports...
‘I Want To Crack Civil Services Now’
Barieq Manzoor, a Downtown girl topped IGNOU’s BCom examination. It was beyond her expectations. In an interview with Saif Ullah Bashir, she says her...
Hired To Humiliate
The abundant colleges and teacher-scarce education department has lead the department to use and abuse almost 1900 teachers as contractual lecturer for more than...
Lost Opportunities
With instability and turmoil frequenting Kashmir, more than 200 thousand students at the college and university level are facing a crippling crisis as their...
