In an exclusive chat with Kashmir Observer, Rakesh Balwal, Senior Superintendent of Police, Srinagar said that cops aren’t merely for operational things in Kashmir, but for resolving the plethora of issues such as drug menace, normal policing and social crimes.
In a chat with Kashmir Observer, Ifshan Dewan, Wildlife Warden Wetlands talks about the ongoing flutter in the wetlands of the valley.
‘Today, an army of our PHD scholars are sitting home when the Class 10th or 12th certificate-holders would previously get government jobs due to political favours. Time has changed and favours have faltered, but lack of career planning is still dooming us.’
Of course, there is resentment and people have grievances. Let’s not forget the country has been reeling under decades of draconian sanctions, which have taken a heavy toll on ordinary people. Tenth months into the Ukraine war, inflation and food crisis have assumed alarming proportions across Europe.
In a freewheeling interview with Kashmir Observer, Iftikhar Hakim, Chief Town Planner, Kashmir talks about the urban scenario and the vision document lost in translation.
On the eve of National Cancer Awareness Day, observed on November 7 every year, Dr. Fir Afroz , who heads Radiation Oncology Department of SKIMS talks to Kashmir Observer, arguing that awareness is the most potent tool to fight the dreadful disease.
“Things related to education have improved a lot in Kashmir,” says Dr. Seema Naz, Principal Govt College of Education. “We now have around 142 colleges and 12 universities. Students should avail the opportunities and they are doing very well.”
In a chat with Kashmir Observer, the Bollywood lyricist Tauqeer Zaidi talks about his literary and filmy journey along with his Kashmir story.
“There’s an exponential surge in the number of heart attack cases in Kashmir in recent times,” Dr. Irfan A. Bhat, Kashmir’s renowned cardiologist said. “Since 2019, the rate of such cases has doubled to what it was three years ago.”
The anthology A Case of Indian Marvels: Dazzling Stories from the Country’s Finest New Writers (edited by David Davidar) features forty short stories which deal with India as it had been for the past few decades and India as it is now.
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