Overcoming helplessness
A Kunan Poshpora rape victim refuses to be condemned and cocooned in shame. She runs a self-help group with other such victims, helping them...
Disability is no inability
Left paraplegic by multiple bullet injuries, Arshad Pandith chose to come out of despair and live his life. Today he drives his car, his...
Preserving the Past
At an age when people retire, Atiqa Bano set up a museum to preserve and display rare artefacts and manuscripts of Kashmir. Majid Maqbool...
The postcard girl
The face of Ladakh tourism? Yangchin Lamo, overcomes a speech impair to appear in music videos as well, reports Zubair A Dar
She is the...
‘Why should I mourn?’
Muhammad Shafi Bazaaz would spend time decorating his son’s grave at Martyr’s Graveyard, until one day he saw eight unattended graves there. Shazia Yousuf...
Green poet
Zarief Ahmad Zarief is known more for his poetry and flamboyant Kashmiri critique than his social activism like his passion for saving Chinars. Majid...
Building a glacier
Known as the ice man of Ladakh, Chewang Norfel has created at least five artificial glaciers to replenish water scarcity created by global warming....
Not a human’s job
For two decades, Maqbool was the only autopsy man in Kashmir. He tells Zubair A. Dar that knifing thousands of bodies has taken toll...
One man army
In his battle to prevent drug addiction, Dr Riyaz Ahmad, keeps an understaffed government de-addiction centre alive and kicking. Majid Maqbool meets the doctor...
Reaching Out With Help
At a time when families of Kashmiri politicians and bureaucrats were seeking more and more protection, Nighat Shafi Pandit stepped out of her cosy...
Water warriors of Doda
A group of young men fight Chenab’s fast flowing waters for rescuing persons who fell in the river. Haroon Mirani profiles these brave-hearts. In...
Mission green
Declined a government job, Shashi Kumar Kesri was sarcastically told to go farming. He did and turned a vast barren rocky land into a...
The old man and the bulbul
Octogenarian Muhammad Akram writes poetry inspired by a pair of birds, who he says have been visiting him for the last 50 years. Akram...
Guardian of history
He was inspired by the family antiques he inherited. Public apathy towards heritage transformed his passion for historical collections into duty. Shazia Khan peeps...
Daring Challenges, Creating Hope
A physiotherapist who sidelined his career to work for the physically challenged, Sami Wani, in collaboration with a international NGO has given new life...
