Yusuf Jameel, Srinagar
In conflict battered Kashmir when the truth became a casualty and propaganda replaced news, Kashmiris tuned to one source, BBC radio, and its correspondent...
No room for the newsroom
ARSHID MALIK
George Orwell wrote the lines, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” He understood that if...
Reliving The Story
It may yet to have come of age, but journalism in Kashmir has grown beyond anybody’s imagination over the past two decades - its...
A word for my fraternity
Taking the press freedom and right to information laws at face value Iftikhar Gilani reported fearlessly and objectively without caring for any perceived or...
The Story of A Rebirth
Charged with espionage and detained for four years, photojournalist Maqbool Sahil wrote books inside the jail. He writes about the torture and his helplessness...
From unsettled times to repressive freedom
By GAUTAM NAVLAKHA
I have little to say. Reason is simple. To report on everyday stable secure life punctuated by some days of turbulence is...
Boom boom boom . . .
The two-decade turmoil has adversely impacted most business in Kashmir, but for the media industry it provided a boost. Haroon Mirani takes a look...
Through thick and thin
Newspaper hawkers are known to face rain and sun everywhere, but in Kashmir bullets and batons are a supplement. Ibrahim Wani reports.
Even before the...
Costly Images
Photo and video journalists bring news into the bedrooms and are always perceived by people as a glamorous lot. Izhar A Wani writes about...
Unending Search
She doesn’t know if her husband is dead or alive. She gave up search of her missing calligrapher husband who disappeared in troopers’ custody...
2009 Snippets
COSTLIEST POLICE STATION
Batamaloo police station is going to be the costliest station ever constructed by the cash-rich JKP. To be set up on five...
The Regime of Globalization
ARSHID MALIK
Cultural diversity, a product of the vast range of human experiences and achievements is a broad concept based on the connections between people...
Fazl Haq Qureshi
Hurriyat Conference (M) executive member Fazl Haq Qureshi was discharged from SKIMS after 25 days in the hospital. Qureshi, who survived a murderous assault,...
Why autonomy wouldn’t work
JEHANGIR RAINA
Heuristics is a subject, which involves problem solving in cases that do not have THE solutions, though there can be several optimised solutions.
Kashmir...
TURNS, TWISTS AND TURBULENCE
“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us”
Juries and...
