Penman’s Peregrination
Life takes a full circle, quite literally. Syed Asma talks to noted Urdu and Kashmiri essayist Prof Mohammed Zaman Azurdah to piece together dots...
Jailer, Class Apart
Rajni Sehgal, J&K’s most senior female jailor who once jumped to newspaper front pages for training Bangladeshi prisoners in Kashmir embroidery in Kot Bhalwal,...
The Accord Cable
After G Parthasarthy and Mirza Afzal Beg signed the accord for their political masters on February 24, 1975, the then Prime Minister Mrs Indira...
His Kashmir Rediscovery
Mufti Sayeed wore many hats, flirted with different parties and played many games in his long political career. After turmoil decimated Kashmir gave him...
Indira’s Man in Kashmir
Once the Delhi-Srinagar rapprochement sent J&K Congress to the backseat in 1975, Mufti Sayeed started experimenting with alternative ways of staying powerful. His chain...
Next Desk Please…
One family’s ordeal with government’s dilly-dallying while disbursing compensation post floods has left them questioning the system. Saima Bhat narrates the painful tale of...
Enters Mufti
A law graduate’s journey from small south Kashmir town to the highest power corridors in Delhi is scripted with twists and turns. Shams Irfan...
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,...
Petty Thefts, Big Deal
Is it the kick that makes one steal petty things like plants, manhole covers, railings, telephone cables, flower pots etc or the money behind...
A Phenomenal Struggle
In making individuals achieve their objectives, there are lots of people who contribute, especially in case of have-nots. But there are quite a few...
Let History Decide
by Iftikhar Gilani
In early 2005, when Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was at the helm of affairs, I was returning to Srinagar from apple rich city...
Craft Smith
They can make a replica of any complicated foreign machine in a day’s time. The famous German Khars of old city, whose client list...
Acclaimed act
He has been a lead actor in Mahesh Bhatt’s movie Dhokha. His work won him a lot of acclaim. Muzammil Ibrahim’s road to Bollywood...
Daring Rescue And Relief
Encircled from three sides by swelling Jhelum, people living in Srinagar’s posh locality Rajbagh had only downtown boys standing between life and death. Political...
Unthankful ‘Masters’
From once a respected educationist to a hand-to-mouth shopkeeper who struggles to feed his family of seven members Mohammad Ahsan Ganai, 73, has no...
