Jail Outbreak
The contagion managed entry into one of the many over-crowded jails in Kashmir pushing the families into a new crisis reports Khalid Bashir Gura
The spike...
Offshore Classes
Despite shutdown and lockdowns, many Kashmiri students and professionals have bagged fellowships to study at prestigious western universities, reports Syed Samreen
Mohammad Tabish, 29, applied for...
In No Go Area
Unshakable faith in God and compassion for the ailing inspires Jameel Ahmad Digoo, an ambulance driver of the health department, to ferry Covid-19 positive...
The Covid Collaterals
As a person tests positive for Covid-19, the entire eco-system for the family and the villages’ changes abruptly. Authorities take away the people to...
Downgrading Red Zone
At one point of time, Hajin belt was emerging as Coronavirus hotbed. Though the belt continues wearing the red zone status, the numbers have...
The Covid Collateral
While the entire focus is on preventing Covid-19 related fatalities, people are silently dying from treatable medical conditions and also because of the negligence...
Blood and Virus
After the mourners violated the social distancing norms in Sopore, security grid has silently started official burial of the slain militants in Kashmir to...
Under Corona Crosshairs
As families are rediscovering their shared spaces during the ongoing lockdown, a section of the society is witnessing a dramatic rise in domestic violence,...
Locked-Down
Khalid Bashir Gura talked to a number of people from diverse backgrounds just to understand how they manage their life in the lockdown that...
Concertina and Ostracism
Life inside a containment area is no different from the lockdown. It is the ostracization that makes it different, reports Farzana Nisar
Every road leading...
Deafening Domicile
Amid the counter-Covid-19 lockdown, Delhi quietly rolled out the new rules defining domicile of the newly created Union Territory. Amended a few days later,...
A Different Politician
Since the fifties, Peer Hafizullah Makhdoomi had a conspicuous presence in Kashmir politics till 1990s. A confidante of the then leading politician Mohiuddin Karra,...
Get Masks Please
Coronavirus is making deeper inroads but Kashmir is woefully short of essential medical supplies, reports Umar Mukhtar
When the news of first positive Covid-19 case in...
Whither Job?
Kashmir is grappling with rising joblessness, but there are fewer government jobs and recruiting agencies are in a limbo, reports Saima Bhat
When in 2010...
Kashmir’s Tehran Tension
As Kashmir’s historical Iran connection is being tested by the coronavirus spread, expert Kashmiri Iranians suggest against flying a few hundred students home because...
