The Passing of Ved Ji: A Colossal Loss to Kashmiris
By Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai
Ved Bhasin, the chairman of the Kashmir Times group of publications passed away on November 5, 2015 in Jammu. With...
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,...
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...
Rahman Rahi: Death of the Doyen
Celebrating our own cultural personalities is a way of reaffirming our identity, writes Haseeb A Drabu, in a tribute to Rahi sahab
Rahman Rahi’s...
Mufti Bashir-ud-din
With his trademark style, Mufti Bashir-ud-din has been a familiar face for decades. A face specific for special occasions of start of month of...
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...
The Versatile Vice-Chancellor
by Ikhlaq Qadri
Exactly this was a time of the year, 13 years ago in 2008, spring officially sprung, that I was finally a graduate....
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...
M Yusuf Buch [1922-2019]
How a downtown boy reaches the hallowed United Nations is nothing less than fantasy and fiction, says Haseeb A Drabu
M Yusuf Buch shot into...
Jagmohan Malhotra
Jagmohan Malhotra
(September 25, 1927 –May 3, 2021)
Jagmohan’s role as J&K governor again in focus after his death writes Zahoor Malik
The passing away of Jagmohan...
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...
Khawaja Saududdin Shawl (1873-1955)
In Kashmir tehreek against the despotic Dogra rule, one of the major characters was businessman, Khawaja Sauddin Shawl, whose contribution is least known and...
A Year Without Shujaat
On the first anniversary of the assassination of journalist Shujaat Bukhari, Tasavur Mushtaq details why his silence is being felt as never before
Silently stationed,...
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...
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 &...