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A Brave Heart
By fishing out more than two dozen bodies and saving several men alive from different water bodies, Lelhar’s fisherman has earned a huge reputation, reports Sadam Hussain Pandow The boat which Abdul...
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M Yusuf Buch [1922-2019]
How a downtown boy reaches the hallowed United Nations is nothing less than fantasy and fiction, says Haseeb A Drabu M Yousuf Buch M Yusuf Buch shot into fame in Kashmir in the summer of 1972. Till...
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The Accord Cable
After G Parthasarthy and Mirza Afzal Beg signed the accord for their political masters on February 24, 1975, the then Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi gave a detailed statement in the Lok Sabha. The...
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Mohammad Ashraf
Mohammad Ashraf (August 25, 1943 – October 14, 2020) by M Saleem Beg Ashraf Saheb, a doyen of travel and tourism in Jammu and Kashmir spent all his professional life and an active career spanning over...
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Another Sheikh Abdullah
In Kashmir, the prestigious Aligarh Muslim University is linked to two towering personalities, both named Sheikh Abdullah. While one, almost every Kashmiri is aware of, the other Sheikh Abdullah is...
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Vajpayee Since 1953
While most of his initiatives as Prime Minister are well documented, Masood Hussain offers rare details – some appearing for the first time, about Atal Behari Vajpayee, the hard Sanghi who was soft...
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Ghulam Nabi Shaida (1947 – 2021)
In the death of Ghulam Nabi Shaida, editor of Wadi ki Awaz, Kashmir has lost an upright editor who suffered for calling a spade, a spade, reports Khalid Bashir Gura Ghulam Nabi Shaida, the editor of...
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The Versatile Vice-Chancellor
by Ikhlaq Qadri Exactly this was a time of the year, 13 years ago in 2008, spring officially sprung, that I was finally a graduate. Out of college, I was looking forward to pursuing my further...
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Jagmohan Malhotra
Jagmohan Malhotra (September 25, 1927 –May 3, 2021) Jagmohan, the governor meeting people in Rajbhawan Srinagar in 1990. Jagmohan’s role as J&K governor again in focus after his death writes Zahoor...
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Molvi Rasul Shah (1855-1909)
Mirwaiz Rasul Shah followed Sir Syed Ahmad Khan at a time when the educational deficit had started crippling Kashmiri Muslims, writes M J Aslam Islamia High School (Rajouri Kadal) Srinagar is the...
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Mawlana Anwar Shah Kashmiri (1875-1933)
One of the greatest Muhadith’s from Kashmir, Mawlana Anwar Shah Kashmiri was a poet and a great Islamic scholar, writes MJ Aslam Mawlana Anwar Shah Kashmiri’s ancestral home in Lolab. A few years back,...
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Khwaja Sanaullah Shawl
Father of freedom movement leader Sauddin Shawl, Khawaja Sanaullah Shawl was one of the most respected traders of his era with a chain of outlets in the region. A philanthropist, he was a friend of the...
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Gazalla Noor
After finishing medical school, Gazalla Noor preferred her experimentation in the fields over teaching antonym in the classroom. In her 59 years of life, the energetic businesswoman wore many hats and...
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Khawaja Saududdin Shawl (1873-1955)
In Kashmir tehreek against the despotic Dogra rule, one of the major characters was businessman, Khawaja Sauddin Shawl, whose contribution is least known and hardly acknowledged. MJ Aslam offers the...
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Akhter Rasool, My Mentor
As Kashmir moved from traditional calligraphy to computer-enabled graphic designing, it was Akhter Rasool who pioneered modern designing and trained a tribe in the new art styles. On his second death...
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Shah of Journalism
Salahuddin Ahmad Shah, a Kashmir-origin veteran broadcast journalist passed away in the United States, leaving behind a legacy of dedication to the spoken word, Syed Shadab Ali Gillani reports...
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Kashmir’s Book Engineer
An engineer-turned-author from Srinagar, Amir Suhail Wani is navigating the intersection of faith and modernity, Syed Shadab Ali Gillani reports Amir Suhail Wani, an engineer by training and an author...
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Kashmir’s Kashani
Syed Muzaffar Kashani, a distinguished broadcaster and gemmologist, passed away on January 2, 2025, after a brief and brave battle with a brain haemorrhage, fulfilling his lifelong wish to die in his...
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