A Phenomenal Struggle
In making individuals achieve their objectives, there are lots of people who contribute, especially in case of have-nots. But there are quite a few...
New Landmark
It took almost three years from starting investigations to the delivery of the verdict. But as a group of 43 people goes to jail...
Fazlul Haseeb, IAS
UPSC 2017, the results of which were out last week, recorded the lowest ever performance of J&K in recent years. The consolation was Haseeb...
1865: Kashmir Weavers’ Agitation
By all accounts, world’s first organised labour agitation took place in Kashmir on April 29, 1865, almost 21 years before the Haymarket Affair in...
Classroom In Crisis
In 47 days of schooling in Kashmir, classes were open for 24 days only. What it means for parents who spend hugely on education...
Speaking To The Car
Though part of his routine University curriculum, Anwar Naseer explored the possibility of using speech to command a car and he succeeded. Now, he...
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Trek to Yarkand
In July 1846, almost four months after British sold Kashmir to Gulab Singh, a Kashmiri nobleman Ahmed Shah Nakshahbandi submitted his assignment to Lord...
Corn on the go
A simple idea that came outside a movie theater in Qatar helped two engineer friends introduce sweet corn carts in Kashmir. Umar Mukhtar tells...
Interrupting Dreams
J&K PSC, the supreme recruiting organisation, is in a mess. Candidates appearing in one paper are given question papers of another subject. This non-serious...
Historian Hasan Shah
One of Kashmir’s reputed chroniclers of his time, Pir Hasan Shah Khoihami (1832-98), had taken pains in collecting various documents of historic importance. Author...
Rice Thresher
A young boy who grew up in the lush green paddy fields understood the enormous costs in sustaining agriculture. Finally, he devised a mechanical...
Nehru’s First Speech On Kashmir
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, last week, commented that had Sardar Patel been in the driving seat, “entire Kashmir would have been ours”, has triggered...
In Maqbool Bhat’s Trehgam
For the last 30 years, Kashmir has been freezing life to remember Maqbool Bhat, the man who was born out of his execution in...
Disappearing Diaper
Engineering students at the University of Kashmir teamed up and within three years created a prototype of a one-time diaper that signals caretaker every...
