An Unfulfilled Dream
By Samvartha ‘Sahil’
The board outside the Main Theatre (MT) at my alma mater Film and Television Institute of India serves the purpose of announcing...
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...
Arshid Malik – Obituary
(January 16, 1975 - December 13, 2016)
by Tabish Rafiq Mir
“I had been at peace, resting for a long time in my own charismatic world...
Interned Interlocution
Appointed to lead a team of interlocutors after the conclusion of the 2010 unrest, journalist Dileep Padgaonker died when Kashmir was in much ferocious...
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...
A Life Less Ordinary
Peerzada Ghulam Jeelani
(1925 – 2016)
By Shams Irfan
Two years back, on a hot June afternoon, I finally met Peerzada Ghulam Jeelani. One of the last...
Pandit Shamboo Nath Sopori
Pandit Shamboo Nath Sopori
Master Musician Pandit Shamboo Nath Sopori passed away last Wednesday afternoon at his residence in Delhi. He was 98. He was...
Abdul Razak Mir (Bachru)
Abdul Razak Mir (Bachru)
(1928-1996)
When Abdul Razak Mir (Bachru), who fought on MUF ticket from Kulgam, would attract huge crowds during canvassing: courtesy his brand...
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 Mohammad Mir
Ghulam Mohammad Mir
(September 21, 1949 - December 16, 1993)
A man, who jumped into politics, contested an election unsuccessfully and was eventually killed as a...
Assassinated
After a new situation took over Kashmir within a year after the March 1987 elections, many players from the unionist camp were killed in...
Mohammad Sultan Bhat
Mohammad Sultan Bhat
(May 27, 1945 – August 13, 1996)
A Jama’at-e-Islami (JeI) worker since he was 15 years old, Mohammad Sultan Bhat had contested assembly elections...
The Last Journey
By Shakir Mir
The bed-ridden J&K’s chief minister in Delhi’s AIIMS perhaps fuelled the rumour mills like never before in his political career. On Thursday,...
Baptised By Fire
Sheikh Qayoom
Mufti Muhammad Sayeed, the grand old man of Kashmir’s politics has left behind a political legacy which is not created by men born...