Kashmir Life Magazine - July 17, 2021
Kashmir Life Magazine - July 17, 2021
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In this issue
Having on board the Kashmir based political parties in the Prime Minister's all party meeting, the Delimitation Commission has started working with renewed vigour. During its 4- day visit, the 3 member Commission tasked to add seven berths to an enlarged but emancipated legislative assembly, saw political parties making their cases. The appeals made and suggestions given to the Commission reflect concerns, similar to the praja sabha days, reports Yawar Hussain
RIYADH
In an interesting development, India’s Saudi Arabia ambassador Ausaf Syed called on OIC Secretary-General Yousef A Al Othaimeen on July 5.
1 min
JAMMU
Drones are the new headache in Jammu and Kashmir.
1 min
MUMBAI
Actor Yusuf Khan aka Dilip Kumar’s death at 98, after being unwell for years, laid bare his Kashmir connections that were pushed to the margin of the history of Bollywood’s first superstar and the tragedy king.
1 min
KOLKATA
Almost 70years after, Samarjit Roy Chowdhury, a monk turned lawyer has submitted a PIL before the Calcutta High Court seeking an investigation into the “mysterious” death rightwing ideologue, Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee in Srinagar on June 23, 1953.
1 min
NO OPTIONS
Skipping assembly polls, whenever held, not possible for major political parties even if statehood is not restored before elections
4 mins
Tourism Amid Pandemic
The administration needs to handle the fresh tourist arrivals with caution, lest the benefit that accrues from the activity is undone by the surge in infections that could result from it
4 mins
‘PEACE FOLLOWS JUSTICE AND TRUTH'
Farah Bashir, author of Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir that Harper Collins published this spring explains why she is restless and anxious every time it is Eid
7 mins
THE DELIMITATION DETAILS
Having on board the Kashmir based political parties in the Prime Minister’s all-party meeting, the Delimitation Commission has started working with renewed vigour. On its 4-day visit, the 3-member Commission tasked to add seven berths to an enlarged but emancipated legislative assembly, saw political parties making their cases. The appeals made and suggestions given to the Commission reflect concerns, similar to the Praja Sabha days
10+ mins
KASHMIR'S CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS 1939
The assembly in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the many outcomes of the July 13, 1931 massacre. Recommended by a British officer JB Glancy, the initial assembly, the Parja Sabha had more nominated members from the darbar than the elected ones. The right to vote was restricted to adult males, a candidate had to prove he can read and write before being permitted to contest and the entire seat adjustment was on a communal basis. Right now, a new delimitation process is underway. This write-up by Prof Gulshan Raifrom The Tribune, then published from Lahore, on February 18, 1939, offers some basic ideas about the pre-partition constitutions, assembly and the delimitation process in Kashmir. This opinion also offers an idea about how the Maharaja was loved by the subcontinent’s English media
6 mins
NO PELLETS PLEASE
As the Kashmir pellet victims are desperately trying to find some miracle cure that could enable them to have some kind of eyesight, the United Nations in its latest report on the children in conflict areas has strongly recommended the government to avoid using pellets
3 mins
Kashmir Life Magazine Description:
Publisher: Kashmir Life
Category: Lifestyle
Language: English
Frequency: Weekly
Kashmir Life was launched in 2009 as a weekly with an avowed objective to create a world class news product for Kashmir and about Kashmir. Given the changes in the news market in which the larger events becomes crunchy bites on TV or snippets to suit a reader-in-hurry, we practice an exhaustive, in-depth and narrative form of journalism on issues concerning various facets of life in Kashmir.
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