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...
“If you are good, you will always be appreciated, as long as you are...
Born in the mountainous Doda district, Nida Haji, 36, is emerging as a distinct professional in the USA’s mortgage banking. Termed as one of...
Dry Port: A Port Nowhere Near A Sea
by Zubair Lone
Recently, J&K state finance minister, in his budget speech for 2018-19, announced a dry port, each in Jammu and Kashmir regions. In...
Managing 1947 Mayhem
After the erstwhile J&K state was sliced into two halves amid massive demographic upheavals, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was the...
To Bagh-e-Mehtaab
Kashmir has moved from the love for Bollywood to a participant in Bollywood. Zulkifla Shakeel meets Zain Khan Durrani, the latest actor who plays...
Rehbar-e-Taleem, KAS
A labourers son living in a backward, nondescript village, Muzaffar was earning as ReT and preparing for KAS, an examination he finally cracked in...
In Avanitvarman’s Capital
When the Islamic University was established in the deserted foothills of Awantipore, the naysayers said the campus hardly suits a small highway town, home...
Did Sheikh Abdullah go to office in a car seized from Air Marshall Asgar...
by Masood Hussain
SRINAGAR: The death of Air Marshal Asgar Khan has triggered a chain of mournings and remembrances on the social websites. The reason:...
Restricted Knowledge
Once the home to Sharda Peath, the medieval university in subcontinent, Kashmir with a millennium of recorded history is still struggling to get into...
The KAS Case
Kashmir’s participation in the state civil services has remained phenomenally low, historically. This year of the 51 candidates, who cracked the examination, only 13...
Thank you, Korea! After PhD, a Kashmiri scholar puts his appreciation on record
Schooled in a modest privately run school at Kanipora, the resident of Shurat in Kulgam did his graduation from the degree college in South...
