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,...

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...