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...
Remembering Sir Syed
by Khursheed Wani
October 17 evening was unique at picturesque Pahalgam. The fading hoardings with greeting messages for Amarnath pilgrims were out of sync with...
Pathan Remembers
Witness to the goriest 1990s, former police officer Israr Khan was part of the set-up that escorted Kashmiri Pandits out of Kashmir, on Jagmohan’s...
Rare Investment
While there is rat race amongst private school owners to get the best of the new generation, there has not been any effort on...
Safe at School?
by Zubair Lone
The recent deaths of two schoolchildren in Gurugram have evoked a massive response in the form of a justified mix of shock,...
