Theyโre involved in the community cause when even blood relations arenโt coming forward for the final farewell of their loved ones. The call came when Bashir Ahmad was battling a bug in home isolation. But more than his own wellbeing, he was getting restless for his ailing elder admitted in the Covid-designated hospital at the…
The critical cash meant for the treatment of the terminal disease is coming to the rescue of the needy in the Covid crisis. Tech-savvy Sajid Sofi sensed it quite early that coming events would soon cast their shadow in his serene hometown on the banks of Mansbal Lake in the Ganderbal district. It was early…
Once clogged by tourists, now lost in poverty. The people of Dal Lake are left with nothing but empty pockets in another lockdown. A white bird โgullโ sits undisturbed in the Dal Lake on one of the vertical beams of wood. Silent, he pushes the beam and hits the air willfully. An old man sitting…
Such is the degree of indifference towards this menace that those who think theyโre real flag-bearers of the profession are either quiet or cool about it. The scene unfolded when the second viral wave had made Srinagarโs CD Hospital as another pandemic sanitarium.ย Amid fret and feverish rush, a mike-wielding overzealous man would suddenly appear…
โI was so anxious that I started crying,โ Naseem recalls her hospital visit a fortnight later. โI wasnโt worried about myself, but for my baby.โ Just when Naseem had lost the track of cases and concern, she felt those startling signs making one a fitting case of Covid. The symptoms surfaced when a barrage of…
Living up to his word and wish to meet his sonโs fate, Mohammad Ashraf Khan Sehrai passed away in the seclusion of his captivity. His demise has only drawn curtains over the sixty-year-long eventful political career dented by detentions. Kashmirโs deserted streets amid another lockdown seem to have retreated a year back to the holy…
As young are increasingly falling to the second viral wave in Kashmir, the health infrastructure of the region directly controlled by Delhi has once again made it a desperate situation for the lockdown-laden people. A telling image made much noise on social media lately when efforts were being made to stockpile oxygen in the valley.…
Kashmirโs community concern and crisis management is once again becoming a silver lining amid the gloom created by the second Covid wave. As pyre-lit crematoriums are running short of spaces and JCBs digging โmass gravesโ in cemeteries, a Kashmiri trader is firefighting for life amid Delhiโs deadly wave. Mushtaq Khan is mobilising welfare support for…
After cementing his place as a prodigy whose math mettle won him accolades throughout his academic career, an erudite son of a letterless family is now out to flip the field he served for nearly half a century. Unlike a delusional nerd aspiring to break canons with his mental tryouts, thereโs no eccentricity in Shabaz…
As spring became synonymous with tulips in the valley over the years, many refreshing signs heralding the new season took a backseat. Among them are Srinagarโs purple flowers reinforcing Kashmirโs Central Asian connection and the change of heart in an emergency enforcer. In the rumbling convoys of the early nineties, Ram Lal came as an…