People

Taking off from Muslim Conference and leading from the front in National Conference, Sopore’s Ghulam Rasool Kar eventually landed in Congress. Shuttling between power and politics, Kar lived a long, eventful life (1921-2015) and...

Young people in Kashmir are putting their creative genius to use and innovating products to mechanise day to day activities. Hamidullah Dar narrates the story of some of these innovators. Imtiyaz Ahmad wears an ordinary...

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...

It was Maqbool Bhat’s hanging that stirred noted short story writer Akhtar Mohi-ud-din, and made him return his Literary Award. Bilal Handoo reports how turmoil and suffering of Kashmiris shaped his work      It...

In an overwhelming situation triggered by conflict, Ms Mehbooba Mufti led a marathon campaign to make her father relevant to Kashmir, thus creating a new alternative in unionist politics. Now she is confronted with...

No one understands Kashmiri society like Dr Bashir Ahmad Dabla. Despite suffering from Parkinson’s disease for last 15 years, the professor refuses to give up. Syed Asma profiles the man and his struggle Dr Bashir...

by Haseeb A Drabu For people of my age, a few years younger than him, Iqbal Khandey was a star. He was a great success story as he had qualified for the much coveted Indian...

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...

Born in Baba Mohalla, Bijbehara town of district Islamabad on 12th January 1936. In 1960, Mufti Sayeed became  district convenor of the Democratic National Conference, or DNC. Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was elected to the Assembly from...

Father of freedom movement leader Sauddin Shawl, Khawaja Sanaullah Shawl was one of the most respected traders of his era with a chain of outlets in the region. A philanthropist, he was a friend...

Be it sports, science, activism, photography or documentary making, a youth from South Kashmir is doing it all with style and substance. Saima Rashid & Riyaz Ul Khaliq sum up the budding spirit of...

By fishing out more than two dozen bodies and saving several men alive from different water bodies, Lelhar’s fisherman has earned a huge reputation, reports Sadam Hussain Pandow Kakapora’s Lelhar is a large hamlet of...

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...

by Masood Hussain Mufti Sayeed is one of the few Kashmir politicians who left no autobiography behind. This leaves his half-a-century of public life to be judged by the historians, apparently on basis of circumstantial...