A Militant for 53 days
Nobody knew what was going inside his teenager mind, till Basit Dar left and disappeared. For the next 53 days, he was faced with...
A Woman’s Ode
Naseem Shafaie, is the first Kashmiri poetess to win the Tagore Literary award. She has published two collections of her poems, which mostly reflect...
Worth Admiring
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...
Being Burhan
In the new age Kashmir, even rebellion needs icons. But the rise of Tral’s sober son in the virtual world was meteoric, surprising and...
Poet of Resistance
Mehjoor lent his poetry to Kashmir’s fight against monarchy and once it was over, he became disgruntled with the political turnout, and died a...
Reclaiming Legacy
Sajjad Lone’s plunge to reclaim the legacy he inherited from his father has changed the contours of contest in border Kupwara. It is no...
The One With No Title
With NC veteran leader Sheikh Nazir Ahmad laid to rest, Kashmir Life reproduces here a longish blog of his nephew and former Chief Minister...
AGENT OF CHANGE
In the five years at helm, Haseeb Drabu has brought up J&K Bank’s credit base in the state, brought down expenses and expanded the...
Vajpayee Since 1953
While most of his initiatives as Prime Minister are well documented, Masood Hussain offers rare details – some appearing for the first time, about...
Still Lensman
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...
Stuck in backwardness
Mired in tradition and living in isolation the nomadic Gujjars are a backward community with their womenfolk being worse off. Sonika Raina reports
For the...
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...
‘Survivor’ Slides
In the contest between ‘secularism’ and ‘communalism’, the seasoned congressman was tasted dust. Many believe, Ghulam Nabi Azad fell to the whisper campaign launched...
Fading Memories
Deep South in a sparsely populated hamlet overlooking Shangus is a man who has lived a century and never used a vehicle. He knows...
A Spark of Genius
Young people in Kashmir are putting their creative genius to use and innovating products to mechanise day to day activities. Hamidullah Dar narrates the...
