Mohammad Ismail Bhat
Mohammad Ismail Bhat
(1945 - October 5, 1994)
When Jama’at-e-Islami (JeI) finally decided to fight 1987 elections as part of Muslim United Front (MUF), there were...
Ghulam Nabi Shaida (1947 – 2021)
In the death of Ghulam Nabi Shaida, editor of Wadi ki Awaz, Kashmir has lost an upright editor who suffered for calling a spade,...
Poet of Resistance
Mehjoor lent his poetry to Kashmir’s fight against monarchy and once it was over, he became disgruntled with the political turnout, and died a...
Ghulam Nabi Khayal (March 4, 1939- October 15, 2023)
In the demise of poet and scribe, Ghulam Nabi Khayal, Kashmir lost a witness to the history of a crucial era. His 32 books...
Kashmir’s Last Maharaja
Signing instrument of accession and sitting silent over the massacre of Muslims in Jammu in the fall of 1947 were just two instances of...
Death In Detention
Known by many names, a central jail inmate, Mujeeb Siddiqi died at SKIMS, Soura on June 11 evening. Not many people know that he...
Lost Noble Soul
By: Tariq Rather
December 13: One of my friends Khurshid, a graphic designer with Uncle Advertisers, informed me that Arshad Malik of Kanwal Foods &...
A beautiful mind
By: Tariq Banday
A class in himself. A genius par excellence. An avid lover of books. A wonderful friend. A great philosopher. A brain that...
An Intellectual Rebel
Jawahara Shawl
(April 13, 1965 - April 7, 2013)
As her coarse, deep and noisy breathing set in at around 9 pm last weekend, it was...
A ‘Different’ Sheikh
He was a Kashmiri rather than an Indian. That is how Sheikh Nazir Ahmad, a NC stalwart who breathed his last on Tuesday, is...
The Umar Majid Story
On his fourteenth death anniversary, Er Shafi Ahmad remembers Kashmir’s short story writer, Umar Majid
With a script in hand, when he once entered the...
Obituary
Abdul Ahad Vakil
(August 1935 - July 2014)
Senior National Conference leader from north Kashmir’s Sopore, Abdul Ahad Vakil passed away on Wednesday evening after a...
Moulana Showkat Nadvi
Er Rashid led Awami Ithaad Party (AIP) lost its spokesman, Moulana Showkat Ahmad Nadvi in a road accident in North Kashmir’s Pattan town on...
Rehman Rahi (1925-2023)
In the demise of Rehman Rahi, Kashmir lost a doyen whose contributions to the Kashmiri language and literature are next to none, reports Yawar...
Sensing Sinha
Of the few governor’s who have had game-changing stints in Kashmir, SK Sinha was among the toppers. A few days after his demise, Khursheed...
