Strengthening community
For Kashmiri Pandits, migration has remained a mixed bag. They managed a survival, got best of the education, sympathy, relief and a new world...
M C Kash
may have been a genre unknown to Kashmir, but not anymore. 20-year-old Roushan Illahi caught the attention of the Kashmiri netizens with his rap...
Unearthing truth
Allegations of disappearances and custodial killings have crept into the Kashmir discourse along with the insurgency itself. But public allegations, howsoever credible, face a...
GORE AND PAIN
Kashmir Life has completed first year of its publication – a year that we will remember as painful, challenging but satisfying. Conventional wisdom called...
Letter From The Editor
I am pleased to bring our readers the third consecutive Year-End issue of Kashmir Life. Our theme this time identifies individuals and institutions that...
Calender of protests
Jammu & Kashmir Bank’s calendars are considered the most popular in Kashmir. A household calendar, yet a prized propriety. But this year the calendars,...
Shadows of Past
The last time a US president visited India, 35 Sikhs were killed in a mysterious carnage in Kashmir. With another US president’s visit round...
Hay days
A few strings of straw woven to make slippers were common footwear, not so long ago. Waseem Ahad reports.
Whenever Mohammad Akbar Pala, 70,...
Practicing Austerity
The Islamic Dawah Centre’s established a matrimonial cell to combat extravagance in marriages in Kashmir. In the last five years it helped in arranging...
Precious water
Post militancy, one of the major issues that crept into public discourse was the exploitation of the water resources initially by the restrictions imposed...
10 controversies of 2009
While Shopian dominated 2009, there were other controversies too that hogged the headlines. Haroon Mirani lists the top 10.
CHINESE VISA ROW
The year 2009...
Inviting Hardship
A simple thing like inviting a friend to your son’s marriage has been rendered not-so-simple as people go to great lengths to choose an...
Transcending cultures
Cross-cultural and interfaith marriages were alien to Kashmir, but with people going outside the valley for studies and work, it is not so novel...
Jailed at home
If somebody dominated the scene in 2010 at individual level it was Syed Ali Geelani, the ailing octogenarian who is often termed as the...
Reporting On A Razor Edge
Dear Editor,
We, the reporters in Srinagar have passed through hell in last two decades. But we ensured, to our utmost capability, that every incident...
