Lalla Rookh Eyes
Exactly 200 years after Irish blind poet Thomas Moore sang in praise of Kashmir, its beauty, its women and their eyes in his epic...
Chai Pe Charcha
by Masood Hussain
It was proverbial pellet disbursal on Monday last when the activities picked up quickly. While Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was driven to his...
“Non-Lethal” Deaths
After consuming at least seven lives since 2010, the debate around the lethality or non lethality of teargas shells is still not settled. Saima...
Undoing EDI
Second attack in eight months has pushed the EDI into space-scarce that may force it operate from the tents for the time being. In...
The Bloody Quarter
Amid street expectations that a protracted bloody strike would force Delhi talk to Islamabad and Srinagar, it took an inverse turn towards the more...
Bank On
As a new leader is taking over J&K’s only listed company in October, J&K Bank has Rs 10,000 crore plus stressed advances. Examining the...
Historic Gamble
Tariq Hameed Karra created history by resigning from Lok Sabha in protest against the happenings in Kashmir. But will the decision push him to...
Defiantly Yours
With protests already spanning over 70 days, Kashmir continues to exhibit resilience at huge cost. But lately the survivors of the harsh treatment and...
Recycling Autonomy?
In anticipation of the all party delegation visit to Kashmir, various political parties started talking about pushing clocks back in the Delhi-Srinagar relationship. Nothing...
Talking Trilogy
In wake of separatists’ demand for right of self determination and unionists stand for restoring undiluted autonomy, Masood Hussain sees Delhi’s new trilogy apparently...
The H-Hour
Floated during peak militancy as a grand alliance to resist Delhi’s rule in Kashmir, the Hurriyat Conference is presently steering another anti-India uprising in...
Blinding SOP
Amid piling load of pellet-blinds in valley’s another seething summer, Kashmir threatens to become a miserable home of dark lives. As eye assault continues...
Unmoved
As Kashmir is getting into the fourth week of unrest following Burhan killing in Bamdoora down-south, nothing much is visible in response from the...
Love, That Wasn’t?
The reluctant love marriage that recently ended with suspicious death of an English teacher of Srinagar seems to have an uncanny resemblance with a...
Return of the Ring
After three cop killings in Srinagar and subsequently a few more in south, security scenario across Kashmir witnessed a sharp spike. But in many...
