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Studying in New Delhi is just a means to learn new skills for youngster Qazi Zaid. What matters is how you come back and...

R S Gull As the sun shines over the mountains, it seems as if it has lit up the soil and the stones. For the...

Umer Beigh “For a worm hidden under a rock, the sky is the bottom of the rock.” –Sheikh Ahmad Sirhindi Kashmir’s connection with Sirhind, a small...

By: Shams Irfan A friend of mine who has lived most of his life outside Kashmir and currently resides in Germany would often say that...

What happened in Kashmir during 90s has left lasting scar on peoples' lives. The events happened so quickly that most of suffering remained unrecorded....

Born out of adversity Shimla became second home for Kashmiris fleeing Maharaja’s Begaar system, the very notorious forced labour. Even though Hari Singh fled...

Shah Navid Ahmad After two years of hard work with no proper direction or guidance, I finally landed in Jamia Milia Islamia (JMI), Delhi. Thus...

Mir liyaqat Nazir Uthkar to aagaye hain teri bazam se magar Kuch dil hi jaanta hai kis dil se aayen hai (Faiz Ahamad Faiz)  (I left while the...

ABDUL WAJID It was late February in wintry Kashmir. The mercury was dipping down to subzero and the cold was harsh enough to arrest me...

 Imbisat Makhdoomi I am one of those students who left his motherland Kashmir for a better future. Kashmir, a poets heaven or paradise needs no...

As Kashmiri Pandits migrated to safer places in early nineties when militancy erupted in Kashmir valley, a Pandit woman from Lolab valley decided to...

Lack of regular electricity, proper roads, educational institutes and health centres is not a criterion for recognition as a backward area by the state...

The historic old town in Baramulla which played a central role in trade before the 1947 partition of Asian subcontinent is about to see...

Situated on the banks of Jehlum river, the villagers of a small hamlet in south Kashmir have grown up making odd discoveries of ancient...

Come November and a group of villagers in Bandipora row their boats into Wular Lake to extract water chestnuts which are then supplied to...