Dear Readers,
Survival of a newspaper in the face of throes at present is not short of a miracle. There are plenteous challenges that make the job of every editorial member of a newspaper not only vapid but also immensely cumbersome. Newspaper is the entity that must tide over all that makes it dull for readers. What tastes palatable to a reader is the unpolluted fodder. If that is not possible then a newspaper is destined to course through rough terrains to fizzle out and face death eventually. So, the need of the hour is to mourn the phase that is suffocating the print media and bolstering social media. Social media, of course, is reigning supreme at present but its standards are in no way a match for print media. The timely eclipse to print media is expected to pulverize to give way to the sheen of the print media. Let us pray it happens sooner than later. In conclusion, we all must encourage print media if we really want to give voice to the voiceless. No one likes filthy vent and invectives that have now become a concomitant part of social media. This gall, hitherto, is at least at bay so far as the print media is concerned.
“At times the adverse situation ebbed my spirits but I always derived my strength from the very words of my own father who not once but many times in his lifetime said “one should learn to strive in the face of challenges”. Kashmir Horizon is not a big platform over which one can gloat, but what gives me a great deal of satisfaction is that I perhaps serve my people the small way I can.”
When this strikes my mind, I feel buoyed. I am no exception to the current milieu of print media. It was in 2008 precisely on this day the “Kashmir Horizon” hit the stalls in Kashmir. I was conscious that the path ahead was fraught with challenges and I tried to counter these challenges with an affordable determination to keep the newspaper afloat in the turbulent phase of which Covid-19 is a part that turned everything upside down. At times the adverse situation ebbed my spirits but I always derived my strength from the very words of my own father who not once but many times in his lifetime said “one should learn to strive in the face of challenges”. Kashmir Horizon is not a big platform over which one can gloat, but what gives me a great deal of satisfaction is that I perhaps serve my people the small way I can.
Shafqat Bukhari
Editor-In-Chief
