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...
A Vacuum In Life
A cameraman with a local cable television Javed Ahmad Mir was shot dead covering a protest in 2008 August. His widow is battling each...
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...
Fair presence
Women have driven their way into almost all sectors in Kashmir. Media is no exception. Aliya Bashir reports.
In the past many newsrooms were averse...
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...
Lost in chaos
The biggest disappointment of the year was PDP. The largest opposition party was absent for most of the times from the state legislature, letting...
Building an institution
There may be many factors for the growth of media in the last two decades in Kashmir, but one organisation has provided bricks for...
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...
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...
The Kashmir Interlocution
The interlocutors came, talked to some people and went on to submit recommendations to the government for solving the Kashmir issue, adding to an...
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...
Moved to greener pastures
Cattle grazers in villages who were a common feature of life in rural Kashmir have given up the occupation with changing lifestyles. Mir Farhat...
