It took the efforts of more than three generations of journalists in Kashmir to make the government of the day in 2018 realise the importance of having a Press Club here — a sign of a vibrant society and, above all, a norm in any other part of the country.
In spite of opposition from both the political and bureaucratic class in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), the Kashmir Press Club, with around 300 members, emerged as a collective address of the media fraternity in a region reeling under a violent conflict for the past three decades, that too in a very short span of time.
