‘GIVE US SAME RIGHTS AS MIGRANT KASHMIRI PANDITS'

Sanjay Tickoo is the leader of Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti, the group of the members of the community that didn’t migrate from Kashmir in 1990. In this interview, Tickoo tells Umar Mukhtar that the Pandits who stayed back have been ignored by the government

DIVISION DIVIDEND

At least a dozen seats were won by BJP, independents and Apni Party because of the infighting within PAGD and its failure to take its understanding with Congress seriously, reports

DDC'S DOZEN QUESTIONS

In Kashmir, every solution triggers new problems. While the BJP government devised a new system within the democratic set-up to address the representation issues being talked about loudly, there were new questions that the exercise raised. Yawar Hussain picks some questions from Srinagar streets and attempts an answer

CAST IN STONE

A mosque constructed by the most celebrated Mughal Queen, Nur Jahan, in the heart of Srinagar fought a lot of negative narratives to survive as unique piece of Mughal architecture and a praying space for the faithful

State Of Health

The National Family Health Survey-5 that was released last week offers a clear improvement in the overall health of women and the child and exposes the propaganda and myths that the women in Kashmir are disempowered

OBAMA ON INDIA

The former US President Barack Obama’s book ‘A Promised Land’ has made a special mention of his first India tour and in between he had made a series of observations about the leadership and the politics of a nation that owes a lot to the struggle of Mahatma Gandhi

ORCHARD MASSACRES

The Forest Department issued notices to all the ‘encroachers’ everywhere. But a patch on Budgam-Pulwama border was the only place across Jammu and Kashmir where orchard axing took place. With the mass felling, Umar Mukhtar reports the residents have lost hope of a possible dignified future

LOCKDOWN RAPES

Eighty incidents of sexual assault were reported from across Jammu and Kashmir in the first two months of Covid-19 lockdown reports Samreena Nazir

LOSING THE HEART

The sudden death of reporter Mudasir Ali has not only spotlighted the stresses and insecurities in media but opened up the issues of heart and soul for a wider debate yet again. Saima Bhat reports the increase in the incidence of sudden deaths, mostly the cardiac arrest, and how experts see the phenomenon

AN ARTIST'S RISE

Secretly painting for years, Saba Gul met an artist who broke the news of her hobby to her parents only after her creativity had been recognised. She is now a full-time artist

WOMEN IN POWER

The ongoing District Development Council (DDC) election is adding more than 100 new females to the power set-up in Jammu and Kashmir. Right now when some are reluctant participants, there is a huge number that is excited over the empowerment, reports Saima Bhat

UNENDING FAULT LINES

The desperation to retain the turf created a situation that PAGD candidates at various places are contesting against the parties that make the alliance. It is obvious that the Kashmir leaderships’ handshake has not been accepted on the ground. Yawar Hussain explains the spectacle in wake of historic realties

THE LOCKDOWN FASHION

Months ahead of getting her degree certificate, an engineer decided to choose a different career path. She flew to London and studied fashion and back home she set up a school that struggled hard to stand up and then came lockdown. Saba Gul details the entrepreneur’s struggle

JAIL LAWYER

Arrested while in the first year of graduation way back in 2013, a young man has cleared his graduation, acquired a law degree and is pursuing masters in political science, reports Umar Mukhtar

A CONSEQUENTIAL KIDNAPPING

There are various versions to the kidnapping of Rubaiya Sayeed, the medico daughter of the then Home Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, in 1989. On its 31st anniversary, this is the first-hand account of Ved Marwah, the then Director-General of National Security Guards (NSG) who eventually became the advisor of Governor Jagmohan

‘ROSHNI ACT HAS NOT BENEFITED JAMMU MUSLIMS'

JAMMU MUSLIMS’ Gujjar activist Talib Hussain who went to jail for his activism in Kathua is finally contesting the DDC election from Kokernag in South Kashmir. In an interview, Hussain tells Umar Mukhtar that the government is evicting nomads from their natural habitats by design and with ulterior motives

TURF WARS ELECTIONS

The first post-5/8 election for the newly created developmental bodies across Jammu and Kashmir has neither prevented established politicians from jumping into the micro-constituencies nor stopped the families from keeping the show going on. Yawar Hussain reports the rise of sons and daughters who are taking the development bandwagon to defend home turf

CANCER'S OVID-19 VERLAP

OVERLAP Covid-19 scare jammed life and people started avoiding hospitals. What happened to cancer patients? Saima Bhat visited Kashmir’s major cancer treatment facilities to get an answer

RISING VOICES

Waqar Khan and Ishfaq Kawa’s songs on Youtube have fetched them millions of views. Their emergence in Kashmir’s cultural space was partly outcome of the massive restrictions that limited people to their homes for more than a year now, reports Syed Samreen

AMAZING PLAYGROUNDS

In the absence of the sports facilities, youth in far-flung villages and places lacking influence including in Srinagar is building their own sports grounds. The stories of these wonderful pieces of infrastructure indicate the strength of the society that is desperately trying to manage normal growth and upbringing of its next generation in an abnormal situation, reports Shakir Ashraf

Discovery Of A New, Hitherto Unknown Kashmir

As the Covid-19 dictated lockdown protracted from one week to another, restive youngsters moved out to explore the Kashmir they had not heard or seen. These panic treks led to the identification of a new range of scenic spots, reports Faheem Mir

KASHMIR CULTURAL CENTRE

Kashmir’s idea of creating a cultural Centre is a sad tale of missed opportunities spread over almost half a century, writes M Saleem Beg

THE OTHER SHEIKH ABDULLAH

In Kashmir, the prestigious Aligarh Muslim University is liked to two towering personalities, both named Sheikh Abdullah. While one, almost every Kashmiri is aware of, the other Sheikh Abdullah is hardly known despite his immense contribution to the Muslim women of India, reports Saima Bhat

MUDASIR ALI

[October 1983 - November 2020]

LAW OF THE JUNGLE

Demolition of numerous “illegal” seasonal hutments of the nomadic tribes across Kashmir and Jammu by the authorities has triggered an outcry in Kashmir and a call for the implementation of Central Forest Rights Act that acknowledges the symbiotic relationship between Gujjars and the jungle, reports Umar Mukhtar

CUSTOMISED DEMOCRACY?

Ahead of the first phase of DDC polls, the PAGD ‘gang’ alleged that most of its contesting candidates are being driven to secured accommodation for security preventing them from campaigning. But this is not the only ‘strange and unique feature’ of the first post-2019 election in Jammu and Kashmir, reports Tasavur Mushtaq

UNDERSTANDING KARNAH

In news for the cross border shelling, more than seventy thousand people live in Karnah, which has historically remained a gateway to Sharda, Mahmood Ahmad writes

‘JOURNALISM HAS BECOME A TOOL OF PROPAGANDA NOW'

Nazir Masoodi, NDTV’s Jammu and Kashmir Bureau Chief, is Kashmir’s longstanding journalist. Over the last year, he won two prestigious awards – the International Press Institute India award for the excellence in journalism and Best TV Reporter of the Year. In an interview to Khalid Bashir Gura, Masoodi laments the “depressing state of media” in Kashmir and across India.

THE GUPKAR GAMBLE?

More important than the Gupkar group’s performance in the DDC polls will be what the alliance will do with its potential victories, asks Riyaz Wani

‘DAK SHOULD ASK PEOPLE TO USE ELECTRICITY JUDICIOUSLY'

Chief Engineer PDD, Aijaz A Dar tells Umar Mukhtar