Guerrilla for a different cause
A youth from Khanpora, Baramulla followed the popular footsteps to Pakistan administrated Kashmir (PaK) a quarter century ago, rubbed shoulders with Afghan warlord Gulbuddin...
Yawar Masoodi
It was the first attack on mainstream politician in Kashmir ahead of parliamentary polls when militants struck the house of Youth National Conference’s (YNC)...
Fayaz Ahmad Bhat
In 1900, L Frank Baum wrote the novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and 39 years later, American Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer converted it into a wonderful musical fantasy...
Tanvir Maqbool Dar
A medico from south Kashmir is the latest face of ‘broom campaign’ in valley. Tanvir Maqbool Dar, 38, who claims to be active on...
Sheikh’s Topi Saaz
He has capped some of the famous heads in Kashmir politics including Sheikh Abdullah and G M Shah. A cap-maker by profession and NC...
FAROOQ KHAN
History has interesting ways of repeating itself. The day the senior citizenry trekked to Bulbul Nawagam in Islamabad periphery to pay their tribute to...
Mehmooda Ahmed Ali Shah
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...
Ghulam Nabi Azad
Throughout his political career that started from Sanjay Gandhi days, Azad has contested twice from J&K. In 1977, he contested from Inderwal for the...
Noorie: All Alone!
In a span of just two decades sixty-five-year old Noorie saw five members of her family die in bizarre circumstances, one after another. Rahiba...
End of an ‘Era’
From a thriving customer base in the US and Europe, Kashmir’s last indigenous musical instruments maker, Ghulam Muhammad Zaz, is fast slipping into oblivion....
Obituary
Syed Sajjad Hussain
(1954 - 2013)
Rahiba R Parveen
Syed Sajjad Hussain, one of the known literary figures of Kashmir breathed his last on December 12. Hussain,...
Khurram Parvez
The ‘Ehsaas/Haqeeqat’ contest might no longer be talk of town, but one man is still talking and is being talked about - Khurram Parvez...
Legendry Hajni
A prominent literary figure and an influential personality of his time, Prof Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Hajni is often termed as the ‘first among the equals’...
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...
Living Voices
Lovingly called by his friends as Kohinoor for his ability to mimic almost everything under the sky, Ghulam Mohidin Raina has mastered hundreds of...
