‘Dos & Don’ts to Make it to KAS’
Hilal Ahmad, a KPS officer of 2010 batch tells Saima Rashid the ‘Dos and Don’ts’ of making it to Civil Services
KL: What do...
Unthankful ‘Masters’
From once a respected educationist to a hand-to-mouth shopkeeper who struggles to feed his family of seven members Mohammad Ahsan Ganai, 73, has no...
Red Shift
Last fortnight, NC headquarter survived a conflagration. Bilal Handoo revisits the party’s history revolving round its headquarters that shifted from one bank of the...
Those 4 Days
After Pandit Nehru withdrew the Kashmir Conspiracy Case against him on April 8, 1964, Sheikh Abdullah was his personal guest in Delhi’s Teen Murti...
Activating Activist
From a shy student to an outspoken public speaker, a youth from South Kashmir is writing a different life script by focusing on social...
Finance and Engineering Career Options
Decisions are indispensable in every aspect of our life, but those which have the long term effect are the ones which are primarily connected...
A University’s Fall
Started on a high note with western model in mind, IUST is falling from grace even before a formal take-off. With political connections, family...
“Our educational system has become employment oriented rather than education oriented”
Naeem Akhtar, a former bureaucrat who after joining politics rose through the ranks and became state’s Education Minster, tells RS Gull that state’s education...
Messy Education
With most of the money spent for the welfare of teachers the leftover hardly helps the cause of providing quality education to the underprivileged...
“I would rate it 5/10. KU is an office; it is yet to reach...
Vice Chancellor of Kashmir University Professor Khurshid Iqbal Andrabi tells Kashmir Life that there is no official ban on research related to Kashmir conflict...
Modi-Mufti Accord?
Kashmir history is replete with treaties and accords. Certain agreements between Delhi and Srinagar involve the people of Kashmir directly, unlike all others. In...
Soft Targets
With no educational infrastructure available back home students from Kashmir end up becoming victims of anti-Muslim and anti-Kashmiri rhetoric in mainland India. Saima Bhat...
Hari Singh’s ‘Rasputin’
Faith-healers, astrologers, Pirs, Fakirs and Gurus have traditionally remained unofficial advisers and courtiers of rulers in Indian subcontinent before and after partition. Kashmir’s last...
Lost in Translation
Looking for a government job, get a degree first. Want to make laws and rule the state, fret not. You can be a cabinet...
circa 1947: A Long Story
After heading Information, Libraries and Archives Departments of J&K Government and retiring as Secretary of the Cultural Academy, Khalid Bashir Ahmad started probing the...
