Srinagar: The agricultural and wetlands of Kashmir are under serious threat as they are being fast eaten up by the rapid urbanisation and the faulty land-use. The unchecked construction of residential colonies, factories, shopping complexes, brick kilns etc has squeezed the agricultural land in the valley. It has also thrown up the challenge as to […]
By Irrfan Khan It’s been quite some time now since I have been diagnosed with a high-grade neuro-endocrine cancer. This new name in my vocabulary, I got to know, was rare, and due to fewer study cases, and less information comparatively, the unpredictability of the treatment was more. I was part of a trial-and-error […]
Srinagar: Sania, 22, a female from the uptown Srinagar, indulged in substance abuse after being subjected to sex abuse in her childhood. Sania said she chose drugs to overcome her depression that she had endured since she was six year old child. She had been diagnosed with bi-polar and trauma by a psychiatrist at […]
By Syed Tajamul Imran In 2016, my granny was not doing well, and because of that our family visited Srinagar frequently. While there, humiliation, torture, and abuse by cops was a daily routine we all had to face. One day, after asking my Baba for permission, I wrote down these experiences in a […]
On his just-concluded two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh parried a question whether New Delhi was ready to have a dialogue with the Hurriyat, and if yes, what would be its terms of reference? Instead Mr Singh chose to answer this important question in an indirect and hazy manner, […]
By Faheem Jeelani Great creative pursuits have an inherent capacity in them to transcend the actual performance. Some of the most finest musical concerts in past couple of decades, like Guns n Roses’ ’92 Tokyo, wasn’t just about the music. It reached to a folklore stage where the color of Axl Rose’s chequered skirt […]
A former Kashmiri armed rebel who obtained arms training in Afghanistan with the aim to fight Indian forces in the Himalayan Valley and stayed in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi for several years is currently running from pillar to post to own a small piece of land for his family on his return to Pulwama, […]
By Omair Bhat In the last week of September of 2017, a short video was released by the J & K Tourism Department on its YouTube channel. It attracted immediate attention. Shortly after its release, it also surfaced on social networking sites and went viral. Surprisingly, many of us identified with what […]
By Aakash Hassan Three years ago, a professor in my college told me how murky things were when he was my age. “There were students working for different agencies. The college was about politics and spying more than about education and learning,” he revealed. “Some were so powerful that they would openly carry pistols […]
The bone chilling videos showing blood splattered on the floor of Srinagar’s historic Jamia Masjid and pictures capturing the moment when tear gas shells were hitting the central mosque’s rooftop emanating black smoke this Friday are defining in many ways. These pictures and videos recording what exactly happened in and outside Jamia Masjid, Srinagar, […]
