The Cherry Tree

Roads don't wind rivers don't hum, Homes so stark, with no hearth The sun sets straight into the earth, Like a funeral, without a shroud, And not behind a mountain Nude and bloody, Obscene Skyline is buildings, trees, or fields, Not the…

Newspapers after 1947 After 1947, a number of newspapers emerged. They included Hamdard, edited by late Ghulam Rasool Arif, Daily Aftab, edited by Late Khawaja Sanaullah Bhat. Martand also continued for some time. In 1953, Jamat-e-Islamia…

A very composed person, who speaks in a very measured tone, weighing each word carefully, Zubair Iqbal has come a long way since he took his first job with Jammu & Kashmir Bank. Today, as State Head & Vice President of HDFC Bank in…

Damp curtains are undone Fatigued hours curtailed Those failed To quench the flames Veering to devour one, exonerate anotherPearly moonbeams caress fellow white palms Enmeshed in embossing a crimson fate Monstrous bait ! It is the pyretic…

Journalism or better known as Media has come a long way today after the earliest known journalistic effort, Acta Diurna (Daily Events) of ancient Rome. Dating to 18th century when the Britain press came to be known as ‘Fourth Estate’,…

MUSA SYEED is an independent filmmaker and writer. His first narrative feature set in Kashmir, 'Valley Of Saints, was premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award for World Cinema: Dramatic and the Alfred P.…

On 31 July 1986, in the Towheed Gunj Mohalla of Baramulla was born a child who studied engineering only to end up becoming a poet. Elder amongst two brothers, the journey of Ashfaq Saraf as a poet starts when he was in school. But with…

Dr Sameer Kaul, a cancer specialist of repute in the Asian Region, hails from the Valley, is a senior surgical Oncologist at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, Delhi, and Head of Surgical Oncology Unit I. As a Founder President of Breast Cancer…

Probably one of the 1st States to introduce postage stamps in the sub-continent As name is to an individual, so are stamps to the States. A peep in the history and one comes to know that among the feudatory states of the British India,…

I planted a cherry tree Four seasons back In a morose rain Pelting sharp upon nimble naked boughs And rows, of wild berries Running amuck in an unruly strain. The tree is a full bloom now Of white satin flowers Swirling against a beaming…