The Transformer
He always dreamed of having his own independent business. Today, Nisar Baba’s manufacturing unit has developed into an award-winning company with uncompromising quality. Shams Irfan reports.
After graduating with a degree in commerce from Islamia...
Tsunami Software
A major disaster prompted a Kashmiri entrepreneur to involve himself in developing a unique software, one that aims to improve tsunami detection and management. Tasavur Mushtaq reports on a man who refused to take...
The Dead Meeting The Disappeared
For the families of the disappeared there can be nothing more cruel and inhuman than to be waiting for the missing one. Sameer Yasir looks at the tragedy through a mother who died waiting...
Making A Mark Online
Kashmiris are going online to express and establish themselves. Syed Asma surveys some Kashmiri websites that emerged in 2011.
Amidst the bans and restrictions on mainstream media in Kashmir, youth in the valley are finding...
Community First
Baramulla’s unique charitable organization has made a name for itself. Inam Ul Haq reports on the men behind the mission. On a chilly afternoon in 1999, perhaps around the beginning of Chilaikalaan, a few...
Fiddling With Faith
An unregistered tour operator duping a large number of Haj aspirants should force the government to monitor the sector and liberalize systems. Actors in the travel sector believe Haj and Umrah can sustain a...
Virtual Success
“Hooglu doesn’t mean anything. It just struck my mind,” says Zaid. A word without meaning that’s now become a business without boundaries. Tasavur Mushtaq reports on a teenager’s online venture—that’s become a first in...
Etches in our palms
Arshid MalikThis is a hypothetical analysis of actual events and does not necessarily presuppose its own rightness. The year 2011 is receding fast into a gamut of memories and that is all it will...
Achievements
They are focused and determined, and are now being recognized for their efforts. Saima Bhat highlights some of the many Kashmiris who have achieved and inspired in 2011.
FELLOWSHIPS
Arshad Mushtaq was awarded the International Fellow...
Re-energizing Energy Sector
For years people knew Shakeel Qalander as an entrepreneur. This year, his hunt to understand the basics of J&K government’s relationship with NHPC brought shocking facts to the fore. These revelations have exposed the...
Tourism And Pilgrimage
A surface calm this year was complimented by a ‘record number’ of tourists into Kashmir, lifting the economy hit by three consecutive summers of anti-India unrest. The year 2011 witnessed an unparalleled rush of...
A New Flock
There has been high enthusiasm among the youth to appear in the civil services qualifiers both at the state and all-India levels. Traditionally, Kashmir has been sending its talent mainly to either medicine or...
Power Reforms
Hydro power generation policy may see a positive shift soon, but some actors say the overall direction may end up being discriminatory against the local producer of electricity. Basharat Ahmad Dhar’s transfer as head...
Banking on Kashmir
The government decision to make RBI its debt banker in place of J&K Bank may have proved a blessing in disguise for the later.
They have been always been blamed for remaining traditional, but they...
Fiscal reforms
People of J&K paid up more in income tax that as electricity tariff but the exchequer receives much less that the stat’s needs. While everybody is writing about how much the government is spending...
