In Depth
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3.8KA struggler’s saga: Of illegal appointments, political postings and media sensationalism – Part III
Years after ‘Comedy King’ Jaspal Bhatti’s satirical take on common man’s problems on his ‘Flop Show’ amazed Kashmir, a young meritorious Kashmiri...
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3.4K‘Cultural’ Chapter: Of illegal appointments, political postings and media sensationalism – Part II
Rampant institutional corruption recently became one of the major reasons for J&K’s push to 5th most corrupt state across India, in a...
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4.0KAttack on Chinars: Why the Poloview episode is a sample of everything going wrong in Srinagar
In the heritage city of Srinagar, attempts to toy and tarnish with heritage sites and sights are not new. In the name...
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3.6KOf illegal appointments, political postings and media sensationalism – Part I
Lately as Kashmir’s ‘sensational’ studio-man claimed to blow the lid over an illegal appointments scam in Kashmir, it turned out, that one...
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9.5KThe Turks of Old City and their 500-yr-old crumbling ‘aroma’ empire
Followers of Mir Syed Ali Hamdani, the Kozgars came to Kashmir from Turkey some 500 years ago and settled in Old Srinagar...
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5.1KWhy ‘tourism mascots’ Adnan Sami and Lucky Ali failed to lift the mood at Ghat No. 27
Using Music for politics, this fall, the Indian musicians arrived in the security-ringed SKICC to entertain a select few, while the Shikara...
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9.3K‘Kalle Kharab’: Meet the Kashmiri girl branding Kashmiri proverbs as style statements
In a bid to counter ‘westernization’ and promote Kashmiri culture, a 30-year-old Sarnal girl of South Kashmir’s Islamabad has started her brand...
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2.5KNeutrality in the times of War – Part II
Suddenly, one day, he was spotted wandering on the manned streets of Srinagar, hymning, “Ann pour Mansooier, Rahim loug daawas…” But the...
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7.8KWith a Black Belt round the corner, Kashmir’s Thang-Ta champ is losing her game
As a woman of strength, she would regularly beat eve-teasers on Srinagar’s streets till she took her fights inside the Thang-Ta fields...
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5.4K‘Mistaken Identities’ and ‘Regrets’ in the Iron Curtained frontier Kupwara
Well before Kupwara’s taxi driver would become the latest civilian casualty in the garrisoned province on Dec 16, the military ‘loose guns’...
