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Thursday, April 18, 2024
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Interview

This is a simple Q and A on issues that matter with the experts and practitioners who hold the answers. Interviews are across the various facets of life including politicians, artists, businessmen, academics and social activists.

“We need long term measures to deal with floods. Otherwise destruction is inevitable”

Chief Engineer, Irrigation and Flood Control department, Kashmir, Mir Javed Jaffar tells Saima Bhat that there is no way to handle September 2014 (floods)...

“Bollywood has started to explore Kashmir all over again”

Famous for his creative ads like VISA debit card and Google reunion, Bollywood filmmaker Amit Sharma, tells Insha  Mir that hopefully, one day I’ll...

“Our educational system has become employment oriented rather than education oriented”

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...

“We are  working towards to do a budget which will take us away from...

Ever since he joined politics in the summer of 2014, economist Dr Haseeb Drabu has remained busy 24x7. After helping his party contest Lok...

“I would rate it 5/10. KU is an office; it is yet to reach...

Vice Chancellor of Kashmir University Professor Khurshid Iqbal Andrabi tells Kashmir Life that there is no official ban on research related to Kashmir conflict...

“On one hand we call Kashmir a part of India and on the other...

Actor Rahul Bhat, who was recently in Kashmir shooting for his upcoming film Fitoor, made headlines for his bold comments on Kashmir and demiltrilization...

“For me a snowless Chilai Kalan is not worrisome but if the trend of...

Professor and HoD Earth Science in Kashmir University Shakil Ahmed Ramshoo tells Saima Bhat that in next few decades amount of snowfall in Chilai...

“Jamaat-e-Islami needs peaceful environment to contest elections”

Amir-e-Jamaat Mohammad Abdullah Wani tells Syed Asma that it hardly matters to Jamaat-e-Islami if Kashmir is under America or India  Kashmir Life (KL): Is Jamaat-e-Islami...

“What do the people of JK want? They want rozi roti, development, peace and...

In 2007 he as a BJP party President in Punjab created history by winning 19 of 23 seats and played a major role in...

“Why should I distance myself from BJP?”

His name surfaced scandalously in April this year as one of two BJP emissaries mandated to engage Hurriyat patriarch Syed Ali Geelani. But far...

“I think it is insidious what army is trying to do within Kashmir society”

Vrinda Grover, a New Delhi based lawyer, researcher, human and women’s rights activist tells Safwat Zargar that people of India will face consequences for...

“I was forced to leave PTV as my reports frustrated Indian troops stationed in...

It is an unruffled neighbourhood in plush Sanat Nagar locality of uptown Srinagar. In one of the secluded houses, Ghulam Nabi Khayal, 75, a...

“The problem in Kashmir is that you have ‘go slow’ style. People here must...

For most of the last 10 years, Congressman Jairam Ramesh was closely associated with the economic development of J&K. In all the ministries he...

“If there is one word the novel is all about, I would say, it...

An academic and novelist, Shahnaz Bashir’s first book The Half Mother is set for release on June 21. He tells Safwat Zargar that the...

‘You are sort of an outcaste if you dare to leave a government job...

Aijaz Rashid, 30, a researcher from Arwah in Budgam who is working on a cancer drug which is 8 times more effective than the...