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The holy month of Ramadan is over, so are the lively Iftar parties. Each year, when Ramadan enters its last leg, people organise Iftar parties,...
As the election dates are drawing closer, Jammu and Kashmir is coming alive with political fervor. The region is witnessing a flurry of rallies,...
“He is weak and very low on energy”, this was the response to an interview request from the office of Sonam Wangchuk. However, on my insistence,...
The Election Commission’s announcement about the poll schedule had him on the edge of his seat. Minutes before the Chief Election Commissioner (...
As the cab whizzed past the barren paddy fields, the atmosphere inside the vehicle became thick with despair and uncertainty. Two strangers occupying...
“Is Sarkar di meharbani, na ji bijli na ji Pani” A few years ago, some two dozen protesters from the marginalised Gujjar community gathered in a...
Russia-Ukraine war has again dominated the news cycles across the globe with the war completing two full years. Over the last two weeks, political...
Jamia Gul, a young woman from the village of Pratapora in Shopian district, is making waves with her entrepreneurial success story. Two years ago,...
On December 21, a knot of locals and some outstation tourists donning different designs of pherans gathered at Srinagar’s commercial nerve centre...
Without moving his bat an inch, Imran Khan hit a ton on a rough political pitch. The electoral score of Khan’s PTI backed candidates blindsided...
By the time these lines appear in print, Pakistan will have held its general elections. The elections are bound to be anything but free and fair....
Post-2019, the political landscape of Jammu and Kashmir witnessed a raft of changes with political leaders switching sides and new ones entering...
A few years ago, I was interviewing an IAS officer for a crucial story when a young man entered his office. The officer asked him to sit, and he...
Hamare kuch gunahoon ki saza bi saath chalti hai, Hum ab tanha nahi chalte dawa bi sath chalti hai Munawar Rana has poignantly summed up his...
Last year, when a knot of foreign delegates visited Kashmir as part of G20 tourism summit, a young lawyer turned integrated farmer from an outlying...
A few years ago, a friend told me an interesting story of a man who would rub shoulders with local political leaders. The man was a perfect example...
In the picturesque setting of Manzam, a quaint village enveloped by breathtaking mountains, situated merely 20 kilometres from Kulgam town in south...
The year 2024 is bound to go in the annals of history as an election year with dozens of countries across the globe witnessing elections. The...
A few decades ago, a young man with the help of his parents dragged a decrepit wooden cupboard to a store room to make space for a new recliner in...
On December 1, the manager of a rickety tea shop in Srinagar was rolling up a newspaper to kindle his rusty coal heater, when an elderly man, muffled...
Over the last three days, they collected all the twigs and leaves from the cluttered ground and dumped them on that part of their apple orchard where...
In the tumultuous year of 2020, as the world grappled with the unprecedented challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Muhammad Mugees Khan, a...