The humming bird of Kashmiri and Urdu poetry is gone. Yes, Faiyaz Dilbar is no more. I saw him resting in eternal peace at SMHS, Srinagar, late Sunday evening. I...

MY POINT Srinagar: During his campaigning in Hazratbal assembly constituency, JKNC candidate, Salman Sagar once said, “the more BJP and its top leadership attacks NC, the best we will perform...

On Friday evening my son, Arif told me that he, by chance, met Muzamil Jaleel at SMHS Hospital Srinagar and came to know that his (Muzamil’s) mother was admitted there....

On the night of July 1st, I couldn’t sleep. Lying on my bed, my thoughts suddenly took me to my mother. Why has she left this world? These torturing thoughts...

When it comes to killings in Kashmir in recent months, the statistics can give anyone, who believes in sanctity of human life and not just mathematics, goose bumps. How many...

Death is inevitable. It can knock you down anytime. I am trying to write this piece, what is the guarantee that I can complete the second sentence. This is how...

He made us cry, he made us dance, he made us angry, he made us laugh and he taught us to fall in love. Looking at his face, he was,...

Humans are, by nature, programmed not to look squarely into the face of a tragedy. Gloom is unpopular and, as such, people sometimes take to ‘out of sight, out of...

In Srinagar and Poonch, independents would be key players; In Reasi, BJP may need to woo one independent or Apni Party which has 2 seats Srinagar: As expected the results...

The received wisdom in Kashmir is that luxuries of life distort your perspective to the point of being disconnected from the reality. The apocalyptic story in Kashmir being that when...