A Lack of Will
85 years ago, Maharaja Hari Singh stopped construction of an annexe at Gulmarg to stop the place from becoming congested. Decades later, the Meadow...
A diligent teacher
In a state where people invent excuses to take a day off from work, a government teacher in a south Kashmir village has employed...
Beggars’ Visa
Begging, as a profession, is as old as humanity. During Dogra rule, eight members of a family from north Kashmir sought passports to beg...
Delhi’s Historic ‘Victory’
As DMK pulls out of the UPA-II for allowing a lenient resolution at UNHRC against Colombo over the Tamil massacre, the move was keenly...
Breaking Away From Tradition
Introduced in 2010, Srinagar’s Government College for Women has produced its first, all-girls batch of mass communication graduates who are ready to take off...
A Murder most foul
The events that unfurled after the killing of teenager Tufail Mattoo put the entire Kashmir Valley on boil in 2010. After persistent denials, a...
A Foreigner who Panicked British Residency in Kashmir
It would be naive to absolve the British Residency of the responsibility for the repression and the resultant plight of the masses during its...
“Maharaja Pratap Singh even banned burial of the dead”
Muhammad Siddiq Parray, the Grand Old Man of Sonawar, breathed his last on March 21. A witness to an eventful century of Kashmir’s history...
A Lasting Influence
Iran has made a deep mark on the cultural, demographic and political landscape through a certain amount of interactions, which is visible in the...
The Day Kashmir Was Sold
After East India Company sold the entire land and people situated between the Ravi and Indus rivers to Jammu’s Raja Gulab Singh for Rs...
Banking In Trouble
By the end of December 2012, 1590 branches of 42 banks and financial institutions serving J&K had Rs 60245 crore deposits as their cumulative...
New Book, New Revelations
That Poonch rebellion and not the tribal raids were fundamental to the slicing of erstwhile Kashmir state is an established fact. But Christopher Snedden’s...
The Making Of A Treaty
Barring that the water sharing Indus Water Treaty was brokered by World Bank for India and Pakistan, nothing much is in public knowledge. In...
A Costly Operation
Within days after the 2001 Parliament Attack, more than half a million soldiers were mobilized on Indo-Pak border under Operation Parakram. While it cost...
A Jail Story
Knowing that he was going to meet his creator very soon, Afzal had resigned to fate and turned to religion inside Tihar jail. As...
