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A Viral Vocabulary
The pandemic caused by the invisible Coronavirus has started dictating a new value system as part of its etiquettes regime. In order to understand the new social order, Ikhlaq Qadri attempted creating...
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OBE Is The Alternative
by Nazir Ahmad Gilkar and Iqra Majeed Shah Kashmir personifies a systemic, normalised clampdown. The shutdowns are usually a 100 to 200 days affair in a year. These shutdown and lockdowns have...
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The Exam Fever
Students who somehow reached home during the pandemic are being asked by their universities to return and appear in examinations. This too at a time when Coronavirus cases in the country are soaring,...
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Offshore Classes
Despite shutdown and lockdowns, many Kashmiri students and professionals have bagged fellowships to study at prestigious western universities, reports Syed Samreen Mohammad Tabish Mohammad Tabish, 29,...
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Longest Recess
Except for a fortnight-long reopening of educational institutions in March, the lingering yearlong security siege now melded with Covid-19 lockdown has effectively turned Kashmir into a country without...
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Agha Ashraf Ali (1922-2020)
One of the well-known intellectuals who laid the base for the modern education in Kashmir soon after the partition died on August 18, at the age of 97. Lawyer Agha Faisal Ali, who has written a history...
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Unreal Class, Real Tensions
Teachers recount the travails of delivering online lectures at 2G speed, reports Umar Mukhtar Open Air Online Class without a teacher on a hillock in Lachipora Wildlife Sanctuary. This is the place...
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Schools On Distress Sale
So far, Kashmir’s public discourse surrounded the loss of school days and the sluggish 2G in the education’s online circus. Silently but surely, the situation has reached a level that now schools are...
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The Struggling Scientist
An inspirational story of a boy from a very humble origin who fought odds and to finally study in a prestigious global university, reports Saifullah Bashir Mohammad Burhan gave up many opportunities...
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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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Jail Lawyer
Arrested while in the first year of graduation way back in 2013, a young man has cleared his graduation, acquired a law degree and is pursuing masters in political science, reports Umar Mukhtar On...
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A Reading Room
A woman in Jammu sets up a library on her property to encourage students to read and gradually it is emerging a model for societies where families lack enough of space or the situation for the students...
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Why #Uni4Kashmir?
The rudimentary shifts dictated by the Fourth Industrial Revolution has posed newer challenges to societies across the globe. Dr Mehboob Makhdoomi, who was educated in the West and worked in the...
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Biscoe’s Kashmir 1935
Missionary educationist, Cecil Earle Tyndale Biscoe (1863–1949) was a key player in pushing Kashmir to modern education and a better understanding of the world around them. This first-hand narrative by...
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Contagion And Classroom
Coinciding with encouraging visitor footfalls, the return of the seasonal workforce and the traders, the Government reopened schools after 19 months. An elaborate exercise involving almost every...
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Rare Success
After losing her books and both her parents during the process of examination and still making it with better scores sets Insha Lone apart, reports Saifullah Bashir Insha’s grandparents, Mrs and Mr...
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Failing The Education Test
by Riyaz Wani The charges extracted from the students should be in direct proportion to the quality of the services rendered and to the extent facilities of an institution are used by them, not because...
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A Rare School
Curriculum, poor infrastructure and unimpressive service in public schools are pushing parents to enrol their wards in the private sector schools. This is despite the fact that Jammu and Kashmir...
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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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A Gatekeeper’s Tale
Serving at Government College for Women for four decades Mohammad Rafiq Shiekh has ushered in several generations of students into the college, reports Saifullah Bashir On his retirement day, all the...
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