Ikhwanis of the Yore?
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad raised vigilantes “Peace Brigade” and used them to suppress pro-Abdullah and pro-Pakistan people. His workers or “Goggas” ran a parallel enforcement...
Homecoming Pandits
BJP has made return of migrant Kashmiri Pandits focus of its Kashmir policy. As Omar Abdullah government is awaiting approval to its enhanced Rs...
Hill Activist
Driven by the passion to fight for corruption free, hunger free and poverty free Jammu and Kashmir, Ahsan Ali from Kargil is the household...
Migrants’ Paradise
Large numbers of Migrant labourers flock to Kashmir during the summers. Qazi Ziad looks at the reasons, necessity and impacts of this migration
Every morning...
Playing With Marriage!
A dejected employee exploited loopholes in J&K’s existing marriage registration system to blackmail his boss by marrying his daughter ‘legally’ without her knowledge. Syed...
Pampered ‘Pink House’
All the high and mighty knew the happenings in Roop Nagar’s isolated pink house. Twenty years after, a young woman fled from the high-end...
Madam Mufti Leading…
In an otherwise male-dominated politics, Mehbooba Mufti defeated 12 rivals to enter the Indian parliament for the second time, a first for any women...
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...
Mother’s in Kashmir
Women in Kashmir symbolize the tragedy of this place. The pain, agony and separation from the children are the worst of all the misfortunes...
The death at clinic
A paramedic working in old city’s Gousia Hospital was found hanged in his own clinic at Babademb in the first week of April. The...
Overseas Aid
A general belief that Christian minorities are mobilizing off-shore resources to manage their activities in J&K is not a fact. The Buddhist minority concentrated...
Together for a Cause
When five college going girls set out to change the society they live in, almost everybody suspected their intention and capacity. But after a...
Novroz: The Nouv Zouv
Novruz which marks the beginning of the new season in the Iranian calendar is part of Kashmir’s culture. Syed Iliyas Ali Rizvi details the...
Tales of Torture
International Women's Day 2014, had a theme 'Equality for Women is Progress for all'. But in Kashmir, the day was observed by highlighting the...
Curious Confrontation
Kashmir still remembers the case of a Maisuma youth, “Mandela”, who shifted his base from a hardcore stone pelter to a young face of...
