The College Crisis
With a huge network of colleges and a lot of enrolment, the students are dissatisfied with the pace and process of the education they...
Islam’s Informal Kashmir Era
Kashmir’s transition to Islam was neither the outcome of a forced conversion nor an abrupt miracle by any saint. It was a gradual process...
Evolution of Kashmir’s Printing Press
It took a long time to undo the government’s monopoly over the printing press. Scholar Nayeem Showkat details the evolution of the printing facility...
‘In Israel, I Discovered Something Which Was Not Known In Biology For A Long...
Plant physiologist, Dr Autar Mattoo struggled a lot before he landed in the US Department of Agriculture-run Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory at Beltsville, Maryland. In the...
‘The Biggest Challenge Is To Find Out How 98% of DNA Regulates The Rest...
A young geneticist, Dr Rais A Gania was surprised to see his takeaways from his PhD were part of the text well before he...
Kashmir’s Early Introduction to Islam
Centuries before the arrival of Shah-e-Hamadan and the rise of Sheikh Nooruddin Noorani in the fourteenth century, Kashmir knew about Islam and Muslims. Rajatarangini,...
1948: A War Dairy
Lt Gen Brij Mohan Kaul, the Lahore-born Kashmiri Pandit soldier, was a young colonel when he was posted in Kashmir in 1948 spring to...
Three Essential Tips to Create a Captivating Book Cover
Everyone says that it’s bad to judge a book by its cover. Yet, everyone does so. And that is one of the essential reasons...
Inventing for Have-Nots’
At NIT in Srinagar is a civil engineering professor who is passionate about machines. In the last few years, he has devised a basket...
Bucher’s Kashmir Papers
Though accessible to people in England, the Government of India continues to restrict access to a set of documents, the Bucher Papers that have...
‘We Are Trying to Understand the Pathogen Strategy’
After spending his entire research career at the National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, Dr M Ayub Qadri has joined IUST as Dean of...
‘Some Haakh Varieties Have High Anticancer Potential against Prostate and Lung Cancer Cells’
A junior scientist at SKUAST-K, Dr Khalid Zaffar Masoodi is an award-winning biotechnologist who has been working on cancer biology. Founder of Kashmir’s first...
Off The Shelf
An improvement in the literacy rate is not changing the age-old trend of avoiding books within and outside the classrooms. With the section of...
‘Failure In Detecting Early Is The Reason Behind High Mortality Rates In Cancer’.
After spending a lot of time trying to locate the particular molecules that play a role in diverse cancers, Dr Zahida Qamri changed her career path...
A Potato Culture
Working in SKUAST-K’s potato laboratory, a scholar was desperate for the MS media, a key ingredient for tissue culture but the lab lacked funds....
