Scheming Locally
Most of the central sponsored schemes devised by Delhi face serious challenges in Kashmir at the implementation level. So the officials at ground zero...
Pushed Out
Tens of thousands of students seeking higher studies in various professional colleges are put to severe problems in absence of private education set up...
A for Amarnath
In a situation dominated by a historic dip in tourist footfalls in Kashmir and Gau Rakhshaks managing mixed population areas in mainland India, when...
Taxing Texts
After a stressful and rigorous debate within and outside the state assembly, J&K finally joined the GST regime. With constitutional debate over, the real...
At God’s Mercy
The first counseling for a patient suffering from stressful situation is at home. But when the same home turns into a hell-hole, a patient...
Between Two Eids
Within days after teenage rebel was killed soon after the Eid 2016, Kashmir started changing rapidly. A year later, almost everybody in Kashmir is...
Taxing Times
The pellet-powered government was so shocked by the reaction to new tax regime that it is unable to tell people that it wanted to...
Lalla Rookh Debate
People talking about Kashmir are so ignorant about the place that they presume most of nearly seven million people inhabiting the vale are dependent...
Ramzan Times
Behind the visible economic slowdown, many things happen during the yearly month of fasting. Saima Bhat offers an idea about how people try to...
‘Foreigner’ Returns
At 11, poverty forced him to flee home and a theft landed him in Lahore. Since then more than sixty years eclipsed. As the...
Slipping Control
Stake-holding in Kashmir is diluting fast as everybody is facing its own bit of challenge: the militants, the separatists and the government. So where...
Misplaced Priorities
Between the restive Kashmir streets and the reactive UN appendages lies the government of J&K. But its actions indicate, the coalition, seemingly in denial...
Ikhwan Tales
After suspected gunmen shot dead Rashid Billa at his Hajin residence, the Ikhwan tales were again in demand. Shams Irfan visited the belt to...
Fear and Exile
The killing of a senior party worker literally sent PDP foot-soldiers looking for save heavens outside south Kashmir. Suhail A Shah reports what it...
Discordant Tones
Two years after the BJP and PDP entered into polar alliance, nothing much has moved on the Kashmir front. After 2016 unrest and recent...
