Report Card- One Year of Direct rule in Jammu and Kashmir
The Forum for Human Rights, an informal group of 21 concerned Indian citizens have come up with a report of the one year direct rule in the Union territory of…
Kashmir
Kashmir In search of Subhan Hajam
History has become witness to the fact that when plans to destroy the identity or the character of any nation were conspired in political institutions, one of the strategies induced…
Parveena Ahangar: The Iron Lady Of Kashmir
The Valley We live in is the only place in the world where there are Enormous Civilians who suddenly got disappeared from their homes and never Returned.. Thousands of Families…
Lal koul : The lost treasure
Co-Written by Aamir Altaf & Nisar Wani The earth , the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our forefathers but on loan from our children…
My son had passion, not a gun
Any news from Kashmir to the outside world is mostly related to the armed confrontation that gives details of the exchange of fire between militants and Indian security forces. Then,…
Perpetuated Insanity against Besieged Humanity: Racial Injustice, Kashmir and Palestine – Dark Days Ahead
“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” Albert Einstein How…
Cradled by Conflict: The Plight of Children in Kashmir
Kashmir has always been in grip of one or another kind of crisis. The dark clouds of uncertainty loom over the echoing mountains from last several decades. The prolonged conflict…
Kashmir-Flag: Whose Flag it was? (Facts For Posterity)
(In response to Haseeb Drabu’s column published in GK dated 11-06-2020 ) Since few months, Shri Haseeb Drabu’s columns are carried by GK under a caption “posts for posterity” in…
Student Assessment In COVID-19 Times In Kashmir
Well, in education, peace is a state where teacher, teaching, taught, structure and infrastructure becomes one. The ultimate goal of teaching is to promote learning that is why education…
Shujaat Bukhari: The journalist of a common man
The profession of journalism in the conflict zone is very challenging, difficult and risky. There is a very thin line which determines balance of the loyalty, bias and narrative of…
‘Nothing is left’
The labyrinth of narrow alleys and lanes that form the old quarters of Srinagar were filled with soldiers— wielding guns and batons and wearing steel helmets and other protective gear.…
Ode to China
"My enemy's enemy is my friend, come to Jammu and Kashmir and realise its intensity among the ordinary people living near the border with China. The land beneath you will…
Draconian Lockdown in Kashmir fails the Standard of Reasonableness and Proportionality
Co-Written by Atul and Sandeep Pandey This is a matter of concern because the current policies of Goverment of India have pulverised the polity in Jammu and Kashmir and the…
Stop Humiliating Teachers
At their best teachers are everyday gods, standing at the entry to the world. If they are fair and good, they are possibly the most morally impressive adults. For a…
Review of the Book “Secrets of Kashmir Valley”
Co-Written by Firdous Hameed Parey & Ishfaq Abdullah “Secrets of Kashmir Valley" is written by a well known…
How State Subject Laws of erstwhile State of JK came into being: Have Kashmiri Hindus forgotten it ?
The State Subject Law of erstwhile State of JK had travelled a checkered path before it was adopted in the Constitution of India in the shape of Article 35-A in…
How long will it take Kashmir to celebrate and not mourn deaths & devastation on EID?
Every year before we think of celebrating EID in Kashmir, anything devastating happens that dashes out the hopes of everybody and all are put to mourn the deaths & destruction…
Children Fundraisers Of Kashmir
Stories about the thirties, in our childhood, were not that old. Every elder in the family had a story to tell about one or the other martyr of July 31,…
The Half Mother as a Narrative of Pain and Trauma of Kashmiri Women
A daughter still waits for her father to wed her off. A wife searches for her husband. And a mother still pines for her son and waits for him to…
Encounter In Srinagar’s Nawakadal And The Blasting Of Houses
Imagine the house you live in being raised to ground and you don't even know whether the land that once held your house still belongs to you. The papers like…
A Dreadful Day with a Wonderful Lesson in the time of COVID-19
Once you recognise something beautiful, you are bound to fall in love. Love is a beautiful feeling and only the living heart can feel such feelings. The speaker of living…
Evacuation Process in Jammu & Kashmir
In January this year, the first case of COVID-19 disease was confirmed in India, when a student from china travelled back to his home state, Kerala. In March,…
Kashmir, Coronavirus And The New Domicile Law
When J&K had not yet forgotten what was done by the ruling party of India on 5th August 2019, the new type of virus- COVID-19- broke out killing humans rampantly,…
Covid-19: A Human Security Cataclysm
CO-Written by Waseem Ahmad Bhat & Adil Qayoom Mallah The contemporary world is an insecure place full of threats on many fronts. Natural disasters, violent conflicts, chronic and persistent poverty,…
True Journalism: A Triumph of Art over Artifice
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is…
Here I am
Here am I, living in a muddy house in the lap of nature, farthest from the crowds, in mesmerizing beauties, on lush green carpets, surrounded by mountains that kiss the…
Lockdown in Kashmir – A Cursed Normalcy
To plunder, butcher, steal, these things they misname empire: They make desolation and they call it peace- Publius Tacitus When rest of world…
Three Press Photographers From Kashmir Win Pulitzer Prize
Three Indian photojournalists based in Jammu & Kashmir won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for their coverage of the region during the clampdown that followed the Union government’s…
Abrogation of Article 370 for Development or Disaster: Time Tells It All
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. George Orwell When the Article 370 was abrogated…
Journos Under Siege: A Case of Kashmir
We’re losing our freedom of speech. We are losing freedom of religion. We are losing freedom of the press. Roger Ailes Objective and unbiased journalism should be encouraged but in…
Students in Jammu and Kashmir also deserve high-speed internet
Co-Written by Rabiya Yaseen Bazaz & Professor Mohammad Akram Students in Jammu and Kashmir also deserve high-speed internet for their educational needs during the outbreak of COVID-19 “More than 1.5 billion…
A Letter To Kannan Gopinathan From A Kashmiri Doctor
Dear Kannan Gopinathan, My name is Mohsin and I am from a place where the snow-capped mountains, scenic splendour, exquisite monuments, mesmerising meadows, beautiful lakes, the gigantic chinar trees are…
Kashmir and Press Freedom
Kashmir's story, ravaged from misreporting and state-sponsored journalism in the past more than three decades has been pushed to an extreme, with hardly any representation in media to the local…
Kashmir; Of pandemic and Sufferings
Spring in Kashmir has its own and unique charm and elegance, precisely for its unique geographic positioning and that’s what makes it to stand different from the rest of world.…
Kashmir: The Lost Shangrila
Aaj Woh Kashmir Hai Mehkoom-O- Majboor –O- Faqeer Kal Jise Ahl-E- Nazar Khete Thay Iran-E- Sagheer. Sir Allama Iqbal Kashmir has witnessed a cataclysmic change in the last…
The Doleful Tale of an Unfortunate Batch
Kashmir once known for her incredible natural beauty, scenic splendour, and picturesque locale has undeniably remained an epicentre of conflict, violence, clashes, and disagreements. The ongoing conflict has impacted every…
Kashmiris: Whom to trust ?
The trust is the factor which makes one belief upon the things. The societal and political relations depend upon trust. It is a trust which makes societies, one man's relationship…
Internet Ban in Kashmir and Its Impact on People
India’s Internet shutdown in Kashmir is the longest ever in a democracy.The Washington Post Internet ban in Kashmir is a norm now. Prior to the abrogation of Article…
Online Classes In J&K and Internet
The covid-19 scare is increasing day by day, the life of a common man continues to suffer badly. As the whole world is observing lockdown in order to maintain social…
Kashmir; A peep through lockdown
Reasons may be different but for Kashmiris lockdown ,due to COVID 19, is nothing new. During past thirty years people in this part have experienced many occasions when they had…
An Open Letter from a Kashmiri Student to Kannan Gopinathan
(IAS officer who resigned from the elite service over denial of freedom to the people of Kashmir) Respected Sir; It has been almost eight months since you resigned from the…
Corona Spring
Dear Baba, You will never believe it. The 8 billion population of the world is put under lockdown due to the spread of a pandemic the corona virus. The blossoms…
Only Time Will Tell
‘’ But we common dogs are proud too, sometimes. They plunder us, outrage us, beat us, kill us; but we have a little pride left, sometimes.’’ (A Tale of Two…
A brief sketch of epidemic-history of Kashmir
The ongoing pandemic caused by Coronavirus or “SARS-Cov-2” has paralysed the whole world. It is by far the worst of the pandemics known to the human history cutting across geographies…
Nursing Profession and its Services during Pandemics
NURSE:-Having privilege to open the eyes of a new born, and to gently close the eyes of a dying man, the first to witness the beginning and the end of…
I am no more a proud Kashmiri
On October 26 1947, the then Maharaja of Kashmir Hari Singh signed an instrument of accession under which the state surrendered only three subjects that are Defence, external affairs and…
Covid 19 and the People of Kashmir
The whole world has come to a pretty pass because of COVID 19 pandemic. The so-called super power countries like China, America, Italy etc. have…
Nāad: A Call in Waiting
A stranger in a strange land, Bushra Punjabi reflects on the condition of being away from home and at home within the confines of memory. In such a mode, she…
History: No forgetting, no forgiving
History does not forget & forgive those who make it. Making of history does not mean always doing right. It equally means doing wrong. Those who did wrong are never…
Unemployment – A Grave Concern
Unemployment is currently a global issue. Almost every country is facing this challenge and India is no exception. In the state of Jammu and Kashmir, the graph of unemployment is…
Kashmir: Trapped in a Blind Alley?
[A Note from the Author: The monograph appearing below was penned about six months back and has since been carried by a journal, New Approach, in its, just published, (undated)…
Apple growers of Kashmir: Plight of surmounting Debt and commissions
This year Azadpur fruit Mandi Delhi has not witnessed the hustle of Kashmiri apple growers as it used to. After the tidy harvest apple growers from Kashmir valley flung to…
Kashmir youngsters opt for VPN apps to bypass ban on social media
As the Government of India extended 2G services to Jammu and Kashmir after months, many websites continue to remain blacklisted in the region. Among those are social media sites like…
Roland Barthes on Kashmir
From the curious academic debates in contemporary socio-cultural theories, we have learnt that our society is like a meta-text in which diverse territorial or generic mental sets intricately inform the…
Political Identity of J &K Usurped by Rightist Politics
Co-Written by Sandeep Pandey and Rajendran Narayanan The decision on 5th August, 2019 to abrogate Articles 370 and 35A and division and downgrading of State of J&K into two Union…
When Water turned red, Gaw Kadal Massacre and Lenin’s death
Cartoon by Suhail H Naqshbani This day, January 21 marks a very gory picture of history. It has seen blood flowing under Gaw Kadal Bridge in Srinagar and also…
Jammu Kashmir Continues to be A Ministry of Fear
Co-Written by Rajendran Narayanan and Sandeep Pandey “Jab har saans mein bandook dikhe toh baccha kaise bekhauf rahe?” (How can a child be fearless when she sees a gun in…
Kashmir: The politics of bloodbaths
On the New Year’s Day, Kashmir will complete 150 days of siege – largest ever in any place with the world’s longest-ever internet blockade. Although the curfew-like siege that started…
Why Kashmir’s political uncertainty will persist in 2020 and beyond
The analysis of Kashmir’s 90-year political history i.e., the period from 1930 to cusp of 2020 reveals a cyclic pattern in which significant political events took place after every 30-year…
Kashmir is heading to a point of no return
The crackdown on the mainstream leadership in Jammu and Kashmir and the inability of the present dispensation, to take into confidence the Abdullah’s and the Mufti’s, is deeply problematic. The…
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