Academic Aversion
Unlike 2016, the educational campuses across most of Kashmir had interrupted schedule because the doors would shut more frequently than ever. Muhammad Younis explains...
Public Health versus Health Care
by Zubair Lone
To keep its citizens healthy, governments generally use two modalities to provide holistic health services - public health and healthcare. To a...
Barkat’s School
Started by a mother of seven to impart free education to the underprivileged, Buchwara’s Lowood School is now a splendid piece of history. To...
Pulwama’s Martyrs Day
The follow up to 1931 upheavals in Kashmir are scattered and sketchy. Almost 500 people were killed across Kashmir in the protests that erupted...
Beating the Parkinson’s Law
by Zubair Lone
Have you experienced a scenario where you had been literally sitting idle on a task, paralyzed and incapable of working, for weeks...
Smouldering Schools
Schools became surprising targets of arson and destruction after Burhan Wani’s killing in July 2016. Officially all are operational. Umar Khurshid visited some of...
Right to Privacy, now a fundamental right
by Zubair Lone
Prior to the recent landmark judgement of Supreme Court declaring privacy a fundamental right and an integral part of the fundamental rights...
Two Teachers
The government adjudged two teachers as the best in 2017. They were honoured at a gala function last week. Later they told their story...
Prelude to 35A
A God forsaken country, located deep into Himalayas, Kashmir would play host to anybody and everybody. Criminals, deserters, rebels and preachers – people with...
Dancing Diva
Her father came to Srinagar as a tourist but could not go back. Before he passed away, he told his daughter to teach the...
AK 90
Amjad Khan was an engineering graduate when he obliged his parents and flew to US for further studies. Holding a responsible position in the...
Pushed Out
Tens of thousands of students seeking higher studies in various professional colleges are put to severe problems in absence of private education set up...
1931, The Pellet Start
A public holiday, July 13 is a landmark day in the history of Kashmir that is being observed sincerely by both the camps in...
Lalla Rookh Debate
People talking about Kashmir are so ignorant about the place that they presume most of nearly seven million people inhabiting the vale are dependent...
Hard-work Pays
When she failed to crack MBBS, she didn’t curse her luck, rather stayed focused and prepared for a tougher challenge. In recently declared UPSC...
