Mountain Ink

Mountain Ink has been a member of Linktree for 6 years and joined in November 2019. Resources mountaininkmag has populated their site with include: • → Support Mountain Ink ← • → Careers ← • April 2021 Issue • Good Old Cycle Fighting Addiction, Anxiety in Kashmir • How Kashmiri Students Are Covering War in Ukraine • Kashmir in Freeze Frame: Stepping Into Snow Shoes • Of Mughals, Mentorship, Mysticism — When Love Bloomed As Lotus in Kashmir • ‘It’s a False-Glory’: Topper’s Tale of Disgust in Grades • ‘Fake Love and Sympathy’: Why Kashmiri Orphans Need Home, Not Orphanage • Assumptions and Their Impact on Our Reality • ‘Far From Reality’: Kashmiri Netizens React to Delimitation Commission Draft • The ‘Shawl Girls’ Reviving Kashmir’s Classic Women Work Culture • ‘Reading Campaign’ Biting the Dust As Majority of Govt Schools in Kashmir Without Libraries • Pulwama Military Op: Family Says Slain Was a Civilian, Away From Home When Operation Started • A Tech-Enthusiast, a Ransom Call and the Murder Most Foul • Death, Decry, Dispatch: Ex-MLA’s Crusade Exposing Kashmir Highway Horrors • When Zoon Dub Became Dark, Dreadful in Kashmir • RSF Flaks Kashmir Press Club ‘Coup’, Calls for Its Immediate Reopening • Editorial: Kashmir Press Club—Don’t Shut It, Set the Stage for Elections • When ‘Sense of Togetherness’ Made Winter Warm in Kashmir • Kashmir Journalist Bodies Denounce Arbitrary Takeover of Press Club • Court Grants Bail to Journalist Sajad Gul • 2 Kashmiri Among the 20 Most Abused Women Journalists Targeted Through Tek Fog App: Report • Resolution of J&K Dispute Vital Security Interest: Pakistan’s NSP Document • ‘She Has Become Shy, Scared’: How Screen Is Shaping Budding Kashmir • Scores of Tribals Left Homeless As JDA Conducts Eviction Drive • As Admin ‘Substitutes’ Urdu for Revenue Dept Posts, People of Ladakh Fume • 2 Local Militants Slain in Overnight Kulgam Military Operation: Police • Kashmiri Apple Growers Stare at Penury As Iranian Apple Takes Over Markets • Pahari Community in Uri Demands ‘Scheduled Tribe’ Status • Kashmir Press Club Calls for Immediate Release of Journalist Sajad Gul • No Faculty, No Facilities, and Eve-Teasing: Cluster University Students Seek LG’s Intervention • The Scribe’s Story: ‘We Were Told Not To Let Him Do Such Stories’ • Mehbooba Slams J&K Admin for Hampering ‘Fatiha Khawani’ at Mufti’s Grave • Authorities Continue to Disallow Friday Prayers in Jamia Masjid • That Bus to Bandipora • Chiropractors of Kashmir’s Faithful Bazar • Cold, Crisis & Candles: Chillai-Kalan Turning Dreadful in ‘Dark’ Kashmir • Pakistan Breached Ceasefire, Says Indian Army Amid Claims of Foiling BAT Action • In Pictures | Season of Headgears in Kashmir • 2021: A Year of ‘Arbitrary’ Detentions in Kashmir • Authorities Converting Famed Poloview Street Into a Walkway • How Sonawari’s Literary Spirit Is Sustaining Kashmiri Language • J&K Admin To Prematurely Retire ‘Deadwood’ Employees in School Education Dept • In Pictures: Juxtaposition of Jhelum—Kashmir’s River of Life • ‘They Want Industries Without Giving Land for It’: Lt. Governor • 4 Militants Slain in 2 Separate Military Operations in Southern Kashmir • In Six Years, Friday Prayers at Jamia Masjid Srinagar Disallowed 156 Times • JKPSC Selects 2 APs in Biotechnology Who Did Not Fulfil Basic Criteria • ‘Who Will Take Care of Zainab’: Relatives, Friends Mourn Slain Civilian’s Killing • 3 Gujjar Residents Arrested in Bandipora, Families Demand Immediate Release • Outrage in Kashmir After Visitors Asked To Take-Off Pheran Outside DC Office Bandipora • Two Persons Including ASI Shot Dead in Separate Incidents in Kashmir • Omicron Variant: Authorities Urge People To Follow SOP’s • ‘Delimitation Commission Recommendations Aimed at Disempowering Kashmiris’: Political Parties, Experts React • ‘Reek of Bias’: Delimitation Panel Recommends 6 Additional Seats for Jammu, Only 1 for Kashmir • How Fake Covid Certificates Are Mocking Vaccination in Kashmir • LeT Group Commander Behind ‘Revival of Militancy in Kashmir’, Killed in Harwan Operation: Police • Kashmir Faces Woeful Winter As Power Outages Worsen With PDD Employees’ Strike • New Born Baby Dies Within Hours After Family Notices ‘Deep Cut’ on His Head • Sopore Street Vendors Rue Govt Apathy • Trouble and Therapy: Has Mental Health Become a Big Market in Kashmir? • Rangreth Residents Agonised After Mother-Daughter Duo Arrested Over Allegations of ‘Rioting’ • Jammu Traders Decry End of Darbar Move As Businesses Suffer • ‘Narrative of Normalcy in Kashmir Exposed After Zewan Planned Attack’ • Ladakh Shuts Down To Reiterate Demands of Constitutional Guarantees, Statehood • In a First, Pak Resident Convicted Under UAPA Charges in Kashmir • 2 Cop Killings Escalated Orphanhood in Kashmir — 8 More Rendered Fatherless • Kashmir, In General • After Nagaland Fiasco, Demands For ‘Controversial’ AFSPA’s Revocation Grow Louder in Kashmir • Political Parties in Kashmir Begin Outreach As Hurriyat Attempts Reassertion • Scholars Agonised Over Depiction of Prophet Muhammad in Class 7 Textbook • How Capmaker’s Defiance in Distress Shaped Kashmir’s Conical Cap • Cash-Strapped JKSRTC Has No Funds To Pay Salaries, Retirement Benefits • Chasing Kolkata Defaulter, Sopore Apple Trader Disappears • Kashmiri Poet or ‘Little Soldier’—Who Was Shahzadi Kulsum? • Kashmir Tourism Takes a Hit in Violent Fall • Broken Helmet, Beaten Kashmiris, Blatant Warning—What Happened in Ranchi? • Despite BJP’s Appeal to Defense Ministry, Army Issues Property Tax Notices in Srinagar Areas • Dateline Srinagar — Where ‘Security Beat’ Is Getting Hectic • Unprecedented Power Outages Hit Kashmir, Admin Blames ‘Illegal’ Use of Electricity • ‘Rights Defender, Not A Terrorist’: Global Outcry Over Khurram’s Arrest • Enrollment in Govt Schools of Kashmir Declines by 2% in 2021 • Ahead of Possible J&K Elections Early Next Year, Congress Faces Major Setback • Bridge, Buddy, Blues: The Day Squirrel Departed • Altaf Bhat’s Family Demand Judicial Probe; Amir’s Family Await Return of His Body • Kashmir: Demand for Return of Bodies Grows After Protesting Families Dragged in ‘Midnight Raid’ • In Photos: Landmarks of Srinagar — UNESCO’s Creative City • Kashmir Families Allege Two Civilians Killed in Another ‘Controversial’ Military Operation • Kashmir’s ‘Pencil Village’ Fears Losing Paddy Land to CRPF Colony • Government Apathy Impedes Kashmir Apple’s Export Prospects • Kashmir Leather Wearing Off, Running Out of Market • Witness, Womb and Wall of Woes in Kashmir • Political Turmoil, Economic Uncertainty Mars J&K As Unemployment Continues to Surge • ‘We’ll Only Talk to Youth’: Inside Delhi’s New K-Outreach • Amateurs Trading Cryptocurrency in Kashmir, Threat of Losing Money Prevails • Families of Kashmiri Students Booked With Sedition Waiting for Their Return • Despite Tense Past, Saffron Growers of Kashmir Upbeat About Present Produce • Medical Students in Kashmir Booked Under Anti-Terror Law for Celebrating Pakistan’s Victory • ‘People Are Tired of Militarization’: In Conversation with Meha Dixit • ‘Arbitrary’ Seizure of Two-Wheelers Shuts Down E-commerce Services in Srinagar • ‘Beware of Smiling Faces’: Paradise’s ‘Poets on Wheels’ • Families Unaware As Kashmiri PSA Detainees Shifted to Agra Jail • Non-local Workers Fear Life Amid Fresh Spate of Violence • When Dauntless Daughter’s Death-Defying Act Defeated ‘Invisible Enemy’ • Frowning Farmlands of Kashmir • ‘Get Out of My House’: Inside Kashmir’s Dark Underbelly of Domestic Violence • Fall, Fields, Festivity: Hues of Harvest in Kashmir • ‘Our Son Was Innocent’: Bandipora Family Rebuts Police Version • Rattling Upshot: A Quiet Departure and the Deserted Pandit Colony • Face This: Where’s Your Mask? • Fading Frames — Old Signs of New Kashmir • Stripped of Say and Sway, Kashmir's Pro-India Parties Caught Up in the Chaos • How ‘100% Vaccination’ Has Become a Couple Goal in Kashmir • NEET: Anxieties Grow As J&K Adopts 15 Percent All India Reservation Quota • How Hitches, Halts Hold Life Hostage in Kashmir Hinterland • Emergent Apple Pest From ‘Imported Rootstock’ Wreaking Havoc in Orchards of South Kashmir • The Matron Who Empowered Women, Nurtured Orphans • JK Film Policy Reduces Kashmiri Talent to Labour, Local Artists Rue • Jammu Traders Fume As Centre Proposes To Open 100 Reliance Stores • On the Face of Kashmir — Frown Frames • Tasteless High-Density Apple Puts Shopian Orchardists in Distress • Kashmir Businesses Grapple With New Spending Habits Post Pandemic • An Afghan Mystic Who Made Kashmir His Home • J&K Police Sub Inspector’s Killing Raises Concerns • The Final Landscape • Shaista, Nazima—The Tale of Two Kashmiri Teen Breadwinners • ‘New Delhi Sees Kashmiris As Enemies’ • 'Lost Anchor': Resistance Politics After Geelani • The Dissident Who Closed Door for Delhi in Kashmir • Geelani’s Body Snatched, Buried Against His Will: Family • Visits and Wails: How Uprooted Gurezis Uphold Their Lost Homeland • Gold in Empty Nest: The Moral of the Good Story • ‘Your Mother Is Unwell’: Grave Talks of Kashmir • Stealth and Strike in Srinagar • Amid Kabul Takeover, Kashmir is Back to Buzz • In Kashmir, Facebook Journalism Has Become Pain in Neck • ‘Doval Called Us Back’: Authors of ‘Siege’ Return With Spy Thriller • Cheering Cups of Tea: Overcoming Hitch About Kashmir in World Literature • Life in the Clock Tower Valley: Scribe’s Novel Fails to Impress • In Pictures: A Woeful Walk of Remembrance • Administrator’s Activism • From Doll to Diary: Kashmir’s Aisha is Growing Fast Within Walls • 'Sabir' on Street • ‘We’re Done With Dirt’: Why Kashmiri Women Political Workers Feel Betrayed? • ‘Depressing Days’ Paving Way for Alp Adventure in Kashmir • Watch: The Sad Silk Story • Rugmaker’s Resolve Rebranding Kashmiri ‘Gabe’ • Emblem of Dead is Changing in Kashmir, Epitaphists Mark • ‘Na Tchu Kaar, Na Tche Gaade’: Anglers’ Anguish At Dal Lake • Poloview — Where Mystics Once Made Day for Merchants • Return of Himalayan Horsemen on Turkish Pride • Pandit Prophesy: Kashmir’s ‘Game of Throne’ Belongs to Congressman • ‘Nobody Knows Their Number’: ‘Operation Leopard’ Getting Wild in Kashmir • Agony of Achan • In Graphics: Speculative Streets • ‘I Bow Down Into His Arms’: A Rendezvous With ‘Rehbar’ • The Shell-Shocked Meadow That Now Explodes With Secrets, Stories… • Nobody's Hijazi • ‘Where Past Makes Rumours Reliable’: In The Land of ‘Khabri Zainakadal’ • ‘What Now?’: Rumours of Summer • WBS — Where Buses Sell as Scrap • From Golden Hands to Gloomy Faces: Srinagar’s Fall from Grace • ‘Everyone Deserves a Decent Farewell’: Meet Kashmir’s Welfare Family • In Kashmir, Cancer Funds Saving Covid Situation • The Ghat of the Gloomy World • ‘Will It Impact My Baby’: Mother’s Anguish in Kashmir • Blast and Brouhaha In Indian Coffee House • A Nice Cup of Tea on Srinagar’s Iconic Bund • The Winter of Hi(s)tory • New Kashmir Song: Old Narrative Dressed in Devotional Apparels • Watch: Be Creative in Covid • Obituary: Jailbird’s Journey • Barricaded Backdrop of Kashmir’s Viral Resistance • The Melancholy Town Where No One Smiles • Compassion in Covid: Kashmiris Tackling SOS With Samaritan Spirit • Family, Fear and Friendship • Poet’s Muse: Life on Other Side of Jhelum • Of Death, Loss, Survival: Kashmir’s Tryst With COVID Calendar • Kashmiri Zero Man’s Theory May Redefine the World of Mathematics • Podcast: Chapter 03 – Once Upon a Time • A Dead Man’s Dread • Podcast: Chapter 02 - The Political Circus • Officer Ram Lal’s Encounter With Kashmir’s Persian Bloom • Why My Mother Is Being Forced To Attend School? • In the Times of Loneliness, Can the Digital Screens Be Our Home? • Bookshelf: Biographies of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) • Podcast: Chapter 01 - Hanging Honour • ‘My Dope Became My Friend’s Death’: An Ex-Druggie’s Retrospection • ‘Pretty but Pathetic’: Primitive Life on Two Jhelum Ghats • The Girl With a Red Umbrella • ‘This Place Is of Caution’: Life Inside Kashmir Sanctuary • The Vale of Ashes • Unleashed Biting Terror Endlessly Bleeding Kashmir • Row Over Aurangzeb Revived Kashmir’s Muslim Rule • The Stolen Stars • Growing Tribe of ‘Achievable Nationhood’ Shifting Kashmir Politics to North? • She Dreams About Cordons, Encounters… • Pandemic Prisoner: Life of a COVID Positive – A Photo Essay • The Role of Journalism in a Post-truth Era • Bund, Baton and Baron • War and (Still No) Peace • Munnu: A Personal Insight Into Everyday Life in Kashmir • The Many Shades of Kashmir Chair • Bab Lived Life King-Size • When Dogra PM Apologised to Press: Remembering ‘Roshni’ in ‘Darkness’ • Emotional Beggars: Whom Do They Beg To? • Valley’s Silent Sufferers: When Love Died in Lockdown • In Photos: Pursuit of Peace • Soul to Sisterhood: The Unshaken Belief of Mohini Raina • Beyond Sher-Bakra Feud, Kashmir’s Chequered History is a ‘Tag of War’ • Persian Glory: This Forgotten Sanctum Is Kashmir’s First Khanqah? • When Headhunting Ended the Last Truce at LoC • 2020: Another Year of Plague in Kashmir • Kashmiri Woman’s Curious Circles: Is She the Only ‘Coded’ Poet in the World? • Top Doc’s ‘Second Wave’ Forecast Making Covid Shots Compulsory? • Kashmir’s ‘Shahjahan’ Who Neither Got His Mumtaz, nor Mahal • Departure in the House of Cards • Date at Dal: Anna, Anne, Alice, and the Wonderland • Rx Redefined: Clinical Combat Against Troubled Hearts of Kashmir • A Man Vanished • Rumour Has It... • Throwback 1994: Kashmir Losing its Rajya Sabha Representation • Watchmakers of Kashmir's Frozen Time Square • The Poet’s Prose: Shahid’s Homeland Lament in TS Eliot Treatise • Amanat, My Guardian Angel • The Professor's Perspective and Protagonist • Rantus Redux: Those Childhood Mythical Creatures • Chilling Cold Making Kashmiris Nostalgic About Good Old Warm Homes • The Penman Who Assembled Prem Nath Bazaz’s Scattered Writings • The Veiled Woman Beyond the Simplicity of the Discussion • Game of Gore • Life Hostage to LoC Hostility • Photo Essay: Brooding Eyes on Bridge • Three Poems: Whispers of a Broken Spring, Slow Rain, Departure • Is ‘Book Business’ Devouring Reading Culture in Public Libraries of Kashmir? • Mahatta, Voyage of Marque and its Makers • A Grave Shock in Kashmir • Name, Fame, and the Game: Sham of Self Publishing in Kashmir • Photo Essay: Playing With Fire • Recounting Ghazal • Adding Insult to Injury • Detour in Srinagar’s Riddled Maze • Groundswell of Gloom: A Native Account of Eidgah • Breaking Bread with Lal Chowk’s Pakhtoon Delicacy • The Faithful Portrayal of Islam • Watch: The Canvas Master • The Chocolate Cake • Politics of Land • On the Advancement of the Torture Industry in Kashmir • The Pandit Who Heals Wounds • ‘You Claim The War Is Long Over’: Anatomy of a Nazm • ‘Powerless’ Kashmir Staring at Long, Dark Winter • Bookshelf - November 2020 • The Forgotten Foot-soldier’s Accord Anguish • November 2020 • In Pictures: Distraught Buds of Valley • Watch: Encounter of a Fateful Memory • In Photos: Fall, Fest and Wular’s Fancy • Staff Recommendations - November 2020 • Watch: REDRUM • Letter to a Dead Poet • Friendship in a War-torn World • In Pictures: Shades and Shadows of Seasonal Schooling • A Woman is No Man • Watch: Doyen of Dark Room • Herr Coloniser • Frankenstein in Kashmir • The Life of Poet—Louise Glück—in One Poem: The Wild Iris • I Know What They Did Last Summer • Grammar of Grit • The Newsy Radio of 108-Year-Old Kashmiri Man • Metamorphosis • Editor’s Note: News May Not Reach You Soon • Staff Recommendations - October 2020 • October 27, 1947: Those Weaponized Kashmiri Women • Bookshelf - October 2020 • Collective Conscience: A Benchmark for Sacrifice • Fighting Bullying with Brilliance: Resilience of a Kashmiri Dwarf • Gowhar Geelani's Kashmir: Rage and Reason • If Only We Can Remember • The Death of Identity • Two Poems: Weighing Scales Measuring My Narrative, The Exodus of a City • In Pictures: The Spirit of Srinagar—The City of Seven Bridges • Two Poems: I Dream in the Language of Funerals, Scream • Wedding Bells and Blues in Kashmir • The Shoes • Kashmir Might Lose Its Literary Treasure to Script • Staff Recommendations – September 2020 • Arundhati’s ‘Azadi’ Is Minute Commentary on World Events • Bookshelf - September 2020 • When Sheikh’s Diehard Felt Deceived: A Portrait of a Political Loyalist • 2G-Disturbed Kashmiri Students Now Bracing Up for Exam Anxiety • ‘Straight Outta Srinagar’: New Hip Hoppers in Town • A Crew in Cold Desert Before Dragon Cast its Shadow • ‘Calm Nights’ in Kashmir: Life After Battlefield Ban • The Plague Upon Us: A Marvellous Tour De Force • Women Weavers of Kashmir’s ‘Crumbling’ Carpet Industry • On the Streets of Srinagar • Editorial: #JournalismIsNotACrime • ‘Otanji’: That Kashmiri Mother Who Taught Book of God • Marx in Mystic Valley: Revisiting Kashmir’s Progressive Writers Movement • In Pictures: Budding Life Amid Lifelessness • ‘Unresolved Grief’ of Kashmir’s Widows, Half-Widows • August 4, 2019: The Haunting Entry in My Diary • Three Friends, the Buried Abuse and a Petition • Support Us • ‘There’re Traces of Kashmir All Over Central Asia’: Baker Recalls on Jhelum Bund • Kashmir’s Secret Samaritans: The ‘Super Girl’ With a Bag of Food and Medicine • Kashmir’s Secret Samaritans: One Man’s Quest for a Long-term Welfare Mission • Kashmir’s Secret Samaritans—First Cut: Two Friends With a Cause • In Conversation with Shafi Ahmad, ‘The Half Widow’ Author • Zoun, Jiger, Maal: The Legend of Three Kashmiri ‘Soul Sisters’ • Inside Kashmir’s Ghostly Cremation Ground Guarded by Muslims • Biology of Belief: Spirituality and Science in Uzair’s Life • Fatal Fantasy: Screams of a Caged Soul • Decade in Dungeon • Mirror, Mirror on the Wall • Lest I Will Forget • Free 500 e-magazines • The Concept of Morality • The Red Cart • Ghazal: Upon Me, Anymore • Apathy in the Time of Amphan • Why I No Longer Recommend Murakami • On Knowing Who One Is • Gulzar: Eternally Contemporary • Photo Story: Everything Is Fine Here, You Please Take Care of the Tree and the Apple • From the Diary of an Extremist • The Waves of Confusion • What a Murakami Novel Does to the Soul • My Hero in My Homeland • Letter to a Dead Father • Soaked in Blood: The Militant Commander Who Loved Painting Roses • Jerusalem: Tracing the Roots of the Modern Crisis • The Foreword of a Poet in Exile • The Death Wandering by the Dal • The Pandemic: What Should a Muslim Make of It? • The Murderer and the Murdered & Shahid: A Voice That Smote the Djin • Canvas With Varied Concepts • Borders in My Backyard • The Notebook • Photo Story: The Lonely Soul of Takherghat • Science vs Atheism • George Saunder's Lincoln in the Bardo • Song of a Broken City • Editor's Note: Virtues in a Time of Global Pandemic • Coronavirus: The Unfolding of an Epistemic Crisis • The Dyer's Day Out • Sheereen and Khusrau • Interview with Dr Eqbal Ahmad • Perpectives from the Past: Dr. Eqbal Ahmad on Kashmir • A Circus Called Citizenship • The Wounds that Never Heal • Do Not Come Begging to Kashmiri Artists • The Orison by Alama Iqbal • Roland Barthes on Kashmir • Free February 2020 E-magazine for Students • Issue: February 2020 • On Wheels • Dawn of Freedom (August 1947) • Arrives • The Meadow • Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte • The Man Who Died Twice • Intimations of an Ending • The Feelings of Despicable Revenge • Kashmiris Have Shown Grace Under Pressure • Issue: January 2020 • From Narrative to Myth • Ends of February & Remember • Language of Wrong Dreams • Meena Kandasamy's When I Hit You • The Case of an Unmarried Mother • Issue: December 2019 • In Search of Lost Home • Does Islam Need Saving? An Analysis of Human Rights • Issue: November 2019 • I ALmost Left Islam: Why Am I Muslim? • Your Dystopia, My Reality • A Virtue of Disobedience • The Assets of Usual Contempt • Two Poems by Maya • Photostory: Homesick • Rana Safvi's 'City of my Heart' • '10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World' by Elif Shafak • The Gravedigger's Burial • A Fairy Tale • Issue: October 2019 • A Glory in Ruins • A Cathartic Tumble: ‘Songs of Light’ by Ayaz Rasool Nazki • We Will Meet: A Poem by Faizan Habib Wani • Words: A Poem by Muhammad Nadeem • The Healing Powers Of Reading • When The War Is Over: A Poem by Shabir Ahmad Mir