Kashmir’s Women Chroniclers
Durdana Bhat
Journalists hold a protest outside the office of the Directorate of Information and Public Relations against the assault on two on their colleagues. KL Image by Bilal Bahadur
When Afsana Rashid, started her career as a journalist way back in 2002, as a reporter for
Kashmir Images, there were hardly any women journalists in Kashmir.
“I was given due space in all the news organizations I worked with,” said Afsana, currently working as an assistant professor at the Media Education Research Centre (MERC), Kashmir University. “As an individual, you have to not only create a space for yourself but you have to maintain that space as well”
Defying Odds, a Young Ladakhi Student Cracks Competitive IIT-JEE Exam
With the lack of uninterrupted electricity, Shaheen Parveen had to study under candlelight to become the first person from the region to enter the prestigious IITs.
IIT-JEE rank holder Shaheen Parveen. Photo: Twitter/@NordanOtzer.
Women10/Dec/2020
Srinagar: A phone call to the idyllic Nubra Valley in the union territory of Ladakh is an ordeal in itself. Over a grainy phone connection, making sense of words is a task both daunting and frustrating. It provides, therefore, an adequate context to the scale of the achievement of 19-year-old Shaheen Parveen, who has made it to the Indian Institue of Technology (IIT) Jodhpurâ a first for the region.