Special Issue

TARIQUE A BHAT Newspapers were the kings of media but their crowns are about to topple off. The growth of what they call grassroots journalism...

ZAMIR AHMAD Year 2009 has slept forever in the lap of history. No matter what the nay-sayers say, the Gregorian calendar is deeply spun around...

Liquor baron and owner of one of India’s major airlines Vijay Mallya, was excited to revive UB Groups hops and a pharmaceutical project that...

Six out of the 45 selected to the Ford Fellowship Program in 2009 are from J & K, with 4 from Kashmir and 1...

DR SEEMIN RUBAB In Kashmir valley, winter season heralds tuition frenzy. Students and parents are at a loss about deciding the right coaching Institutes. Usually...

Arrests have remained a routine in Kashmir for the last twenty years. It barely makes news. Last year started with the arrest of Master...

Allegations of disappearances and custodial killings have crept into the Kashmir discourse along with the insurgency itself. But public allegations, howsoever credible, face a...

The suave, articulate Sajjad Lone was a student of economics in a London college before he burst on Kashmir’s political scene after his father...

AHMAD RIYAZ While Shopian murders may have severely tested the credibility of his government, Chief Minister Omer Abdullah’s own political image has emerged by and...

AHMAD RIYAZ He dominated the Valley’s discourse in 2009 but at the turn of the new year the separatist patriarch Syed Ali Shah Geelani continues...

The Shopian case not only dominated the news in 2009 but also stung most the people associated with it. Three investigations later the case...

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...