OBTIUARY

After a new situation took over Kashmir within a year after the March 1987 elections, many players from the unionist camp were killed in...

Prof Mohammad Ishaq Khan (1946 - April 05, 2013)  A foremost historian of Kashmir, Mohammad Ishaq Khan breathed his last on Friday. The deceased was hospitalized...

One of the well-known intellectuals who laid the base for the modern education in Kashmir soon after the partition died on August 18, at...

In Kashmir tehreek against the despotic Dogra rule, one of the major characters was businessman, Khawaja Sauddin Shawl, whose contribution is least known and...

by Niya Shahdad Almost two years ago, while working on an essay about Kashmir, in particular, a section centred on the shrine of Makhdoom Sahib...

Nazir Ahmad Nazir On 17th of June this year, Advocate Sana Ulah Dar left this world forever after suffering from a bout of illness at...

Before passing recently at 73, Ashok Jaitly was someone who understood pulse of Kashmir and was its de-facto ruler during Dr Farooq Abdullah’s government....

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...

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...

by Zubair A Dar On Friday, May 15, when Ghulam Ali Majboor breathed his last, it was not the death of an artist alone, it...

In the death of Ghulam Nabi Shaida, editor of Wadi ki Awaz, Kashmir has lost an upright editor who suffered for calling a spade,...

Elected thrice to Lok Sabha and twice to assembly, Prof Chaman Lal Gupta was BJP’s towering leader who was respected by all Kashmir parties....

Signing instrument of accession and sitting silent over the massacre of Muslims in Jammu in the fall of 1947 were just two instances of...

Journalism in Jammu and Kashmir lost another old hand as Editor-in-Chief of Daily Excelsior SehDev Rohmetra or S D Rohmetra -- as he was...

In the demise of Rehman Rahi, Kashmir lost a doyen whose contributions to the Kashmiri language and literature are next to none, reports Yawar...