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The ‘Ehsaas/Haqeeqat’ contest might no longer be talk of town, but one man is still talking and is being talked about - Khurram Parvez - convener and spokesperson for Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of...

It was out of mother’s devotion that made a specially-abled boy to dream like any other normal person and help him to create a different identity through his silent life expression, reports Saima Bhat In...

by Majid Maqbool In a seminal essay written as early as 1950, Akhtar Mohi-ud-Din urged writers to side with majority of people, not power, if they have to produce genuine art. “I feel a writer...

One of the greatest Muhadith’s from Kashmir, Mawlana Anwar Shah Kashmiri was a poet and a great Islamic scholar, writes MJ Aslam Mawlana Shah Mohammad Anwar popularly known as Mawlana Anwar Shah Kashmiri was born...

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 who remember the struggle and then credit the helpers once...

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 was the end of an era. For 21 years, Majboor...

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 last week. Syed Asma profiles her illustrated life and career After...

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 Editor Kashmir Life Shah Abbas survived miraculously to tell his...

In his professional career of 30 years, Haseeb Drabu wore many hats and made many rudimentary shifts in how J&K thinks, earns, saves and spends. After joining politics, he is pitted against south Kashmir’s...

With NC veteran leader Sheikh Nazir Ahmad laid to rest, Kashmir Life reproduces here a longish blog of his nephew and former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. Written on May 2008, that was peak of...

A medico from south Kashmir is the latest face of ‘broom campaign’ in valley. Tanvir Maqbool Dar, 38, who claims to be active on social service front for last eight years, filed his nomination...

After G Parthasarthy and Mirza Afzal Beg signed the accord for their political masters on February 24, 1975, the then Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi gave a detailed statement in the Lok Sabha. The...

In an August night of 1990 BSF personnel barged into homes of Mashali Mohalla residents killing nine people. Mehbooba lost half of her family, and her home too. Shazia Yousuf narrates the story of...

Perhaps the oldest surviving pensioner, Abdul Rashid Khan studied forestry in the UK when Hari Singh was still Kashmir’s proud owner. On the way home, he was caught in partition, massacres but had a...