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...
The Anatomy of Landslides
by Zubair Lone
Among the various measures that can be applied to reduce hazardous consequences of landslides, the Jammu and Kashmir State Disaster Management Plan mentions, “apply...
Understanding Kashmiri
The only Englishman who is more famous in Kashmir than the UK is Sir Walter R Lawrence, the man who’s functioning as Kashmir’s land...
Dubai Dreams
Job consultancies that have mushroomed in Kashmir are preying on the lower middle class and making quick millions. In absence of a regulation system,...
Autumn Windfall
With more than half of the 150 thousand fresh admissions, every autumn, opting for private sector schools, the costs of educating the new generation...
Food for Thought
by Zubair Lone
Recently, the Global Nutrition Report 2017 was released at the Global Nutrition Summit in Milan, Italy. It acts as an independent report card...
Kandahar’s Qizilbash
From Kashmir’s first matriculate in the late nineteenth century to the poet of ‘A Country Without A Post Office’, the successive generations of Qizilbash...
Urban Transport Challenges and the Chinese Bicycle-Sharing
by Zubair Lone
Recently, a map created using population data compiled by NASA reveals that cities cover less than 3% of our planet’s land surface but...
Digital Teaching
While the smart classrooms and the Skype teaching are two parallel forms of digital education, teachers caught between unrest and examinations tagged the two...
Rare Survivor
Barely eight and he lost his family in 1947 riots with Hari Singh in town. Not knowing why they were killing each other, he...
Conflict in Campus
by Tasavur Mushtaq
The university of Kashmir, the highest seat of learning, is the abode of thousands of knowledge seekers. Since its inception, albeit as...
Questionable Texts
Government schools in Kashmir are the best in human resource and poor in infrastructure. But the major reason for the parents to stop sending...
