SehDev Rohmetra
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...
Kabir Chacha
Once a major character in managing the load of conflict on Srinagar streets, Kabir Sheikh, father of slain JKLF leader Hamid, died on November...
Mohammad Ashraf
Mohammad Ashraf
(August 25, 1943 – October 14, 2020)
by M Saleem Beg
Ashraf Saheb, a doyen of travel and tourism in Jammu and Kashmir spent all...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...