Literal Mess
With opening of new schools and mid-session transfers banned, Education Ministry is grappling with the ReTs, some of whom might have entered the system...
Combating Cancer
A US-based Kashmiri neuroscientist is lauded for his path-breaking discovery against cancer world over. He tells Shakir Mir that a cancer-free Kashmir is his...
Expensively Exclusive
Education is an evolving activity, so is the art of teaching and creation of educational infrastructure, tools and methods. R S Gull visits an...
Unstoppable?
Five years back he couldn’t face an audience of even ten people. But the will to overcome his fears bore fruits and helped Muhammad...
Batamaloo Blaze
In 1965 summer, when army was flushing out Pakistani infiltrators in the city suburb, Batamaloo went up in flames. Half a century later, the...
Op Gibraltar
Half a century eclipsed since Pakistani dictator Ayub Khan pushed regulars disguised as Mujahedeen behind enemy lines into Kashmir thinking it would fetch him...
Lotus: Yet to Bloom
Indu Dhungana
On April 6, 2014, I landed at the Srinagar airport in my first visit to the fabled ‘paradise on earth’ called Kashmir. The...
America Calling
A small town girl’s month long American tour changed her idea of education and life completely. Saima Rashid narrates her experience
The moment Afeefa Farooq,...
Rationalising Ration
Irked by corrupt ration distribution system, a group of five students innovated a biometric system that promises to eliminate black-marketing. Saima Rashid reports
It was...
The Golden Cage
Shafinur Shafin
I had heard of the fabled beauty of Kashmir as early as my childhood days. The words, Kashmir is a heaven on the...
Khalnayak’s Narrative
By boycotting the official Martyrs Day function, the ruling BJP created a historic precedence that shocked everybody. But Bilal Handoo says the rightwing party...
Understanding Jhelum
Last September’s devastating floods left an impression on young Saqib Gulzar’s mind. In less than a year’s time, he came up with an award...
Forgotten Hakeems
Nestled in old lanes of Srinagar, Hakeems are struggling to survive in face of modernity. Syed Asma talks to some of the surviving practitioners...
Tonga Tourism
Now, Kashmir’s hospitality sector is modern, sophisticated and fast. But imagine how tourism was conducted in Kashmir in the 1880s, in absence of proper...
“Kashmiris are the Most Impatient Professionals in the World”
Tariq Rehmani, associate Vice President in JD Group, a New Delhi based real estate company, tells Saima Rashid that students in Kashmir have almost...
