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Fayaz Ahmad Bhat
Fayaz Ahmad Bhat In 1900, L Frank Baum wrote the novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and 39 years later, American Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer converted it into a wonderful musical fantasy film. The Wizard of Oz...
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Reporting Novelty
This year’s NIT tech fest saw young students putting their brains together to find solutions to everyday issues like traffic, clean water, transportation. Saima Rashid and Sheikh Tabish report the...
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‘You are sort of an outcaste if you dare to leave a government job in Kashmir’
Aijaz Rashid, 30, a researcher from Arwah in Budgam who is working on a cancer drug which is 8 times more effective than the present most effective drug in the market, defied set norms by leaving his...
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Politics of EDUCATION
With most of the KU’s ‘talent’ landing here for their second innings, CUK is losing both its originality and identity. Kashmir Life reports the politics that overshadows education in a premier...
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Elite driven!
Like air rescue teams who handpicked victims during recent floods Omar’s cabinet too fell for elite trap while deciding future of students across Kashmir. Syed Asma talks to private school owners and...
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Lost in Translation
Looking for a government job, get a degree first. Want to make laws and rule the state, fret not. You can be a cabinet minister without ever attending a school! Syed Asma takes a look at behind the...
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Soft Targets
With no educational infrastructure available back home students from Kashmir end up becoming victims of anti-Muslim and anti-Kashmiri rhetoric in mainland India. Saima Bhat talks to one of the eight...
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“I would rate it 5/10. KU is an office; it is yet to reach a level of...
Vice Chancellor of Kashmir University Professor Khurshid Iqbal Andrabi tells Kashmir Life that there is no official ban on research related to Kashmir conflict at KU Kashmir Life (KL): Seeing your...
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Messy Education
With most of the money spent for the welfare of teachers the leftover hardly helps the cause of providing quality education to the underprivileged lot in government schools. Saima Bhat reports the...
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“Our educational system has become employment oriented rather than education...
Naeem Akhtar, a former bureaucrat who after joining politics rose through the ranks and became state’s Education Minster, tells RS Gull that state’s education system is a fit case for a major reform as...
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‘Dos & Don’ts to Make it to KAS’
Hilal Ahmad, a KPS officer of 2010 batch tells Saima Rashid the ‘Dos and Don’ts’ of making it to Civil Services Hilal Ahmad (KPS 2010 batch) KL: What do Civil Service exams mean in Kashmir? HA: CSE is...
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“There is no scope for a person who holds a professional degree in Hotel...
Rameez Wani who recently joined America based Dunkin’ Donuts as Field Supervisor at its Riyadh, Saudia Arabia unit tells Saima Rashid how Kashmir’s tourism sector lacks professionals Kashmir Life (KL):...
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Testing DNA
Love for research took a Sopore born scientist to one of the best laboratories in America where he toiled hard to unearth the genetic behaviour, reports Saima Rashid In ever-evolving scientific...
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Strategic Scholar
Strategy always fascinated a Sopore born scholar who rose to become Kashmir’s first doctorate in Strategic Studies. But the sad truth remains that in conflict region, there are no takers of this...
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A University’s Fall
Started on a high note with western model in mind, IUST is falling from grace even before a formal take-off. With political connections, family ties and lineage deciding its human resource, education...
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Understanding Jhelum
Last September’s devastating floods left an impression on young Saqib Gulzar’s mind. In less than a year’s time, he came up with an award winning paper on Jhelum. Saima Rashid reports his feat and...
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The Golden Cage
Shafinur Shafin Poet, writer Shafinur Shafin standing third from left among her other SAARC mates. I had heard of the fabled beauty of Kashmir as early as my childhood days. The words, Kashmir is a...
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Rationalising Ration
Irked by corrupt ration distribution system, a group of five students innovated a biometric system that promises to eliminate black-marketing. Saima Rashid reports The ‘Rationalising Ration’ team in...
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America Calling
A small town girl’s month long American tour changed her idea of education and life completely. Saima Rashid narrates her experience Afeefa and other students who studied Robotic Engineering in US. The...
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Lotus: Yet to Bloom
Indu Dhungana SAARC students posing in their national dresses. (Indu Dhungana standing third from left.) On April 6, 2014, I landed at the Srinagar airport in my first visit to the fabled ‘paradise on...
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