OBTIUARY

A close associate of former Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi and a well-known educationist of Kashmir, Mehmooda Ahmed Ali Shah took her last breath...

(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...

by Tahir Bhat During wee hours on Friday, November 20, 2020, when Greater Kashmir publisher Rashid Mukhdoomi’s phone peeped too many times, he saw his...

After finishing medical school, Gazalla Noor preferred her experimentation in the fields over teaching antonym in the classroom. In her 59 years of life,...

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...

by Khursheed Wani A few days ago, I was rushing towards a TV studio to conduct a current affairs programme when Maqbool Sahil waylaid me...

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

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...

Since the fifties, Peer Hafizullah Makhdoomi had a conspicuous presence in Kashmir politics till 1990s. A confidante of the then leading politician Mohiuddin Karra,...

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...

Tahir Bhat records Syed Ali Geelani’s journey from the banks of Wullar lake to the streets of Lal chowk coincided as it did with his ideological...

After a prolonged illness, Moulana Abbas Ansari passed away at the age of 86. Masood Hussain offers the different facets of a well-read cleric...

  Abdul Khaliq Ansari Prominent Kashmiri nationalist leader and founder of the Jammu and Kashmir Plebiscite Front, Abdul Khaliq Ansari Advocate, died on June 16, after...

He was a Kashmiri rather than an Indian. That is how Sheikh Nazir Ahmad, a NC stalwart who breathed his last on Tuesday, is...

Bilal Handoo SRINAGAR In 1990, government employees staged a massive protest against the "bloodbath" caused by forces in Kashmir. In that strike lasting for 73 days,...