Tahir is the Chief Sub-Editor at Patriot and hails from north Kashmir's Kupwara district. He holds a postgraduate degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from the University of Kashmir. His previous stints in the field of journalism over the past eight years include serving as online editor at Kashmir Life, where he covered a range of political and human-interest stories. At Patriot, he has expanded his focus to encompass the lifestyle and arts scene in Delhi, even as he has taken on additional responsibilities at the desk. If there’s news about Kashmir in Delhi, Tahir is the person to turn to for perspective and reportage. Outside of journalism, he loves travelling and exploring new places.
Posts by: Tahir Bhat
Actor Nyrraa M Banerji on resisting typecasting, reality television and choosing reinvention over visibility
Actor Nyrraa M Banerji reflects on two decades across film, television and streaming, and why being selective now matters more
Awadhi flavours take centre stage at Delhi Aerocity
Holiday Inn Aerocity hosts Daawat-e-Ishq, a curated culinary festival celebrating Lucknow’s royal food traditions
Filmmaker Palash Vaswani on choosing emotional truth over spectacle
From engineering detours to Gullak and beyond, the director reflects on storytelling rooted in lived experience
India must prioritise community-based geriatric care as population ages
Experts at the Illness to Wellness Conference call for home-led and inclusive ageing models
Lava launches Blaze Duo 3 in India with dual AMOLED displays
It operates on with a clean Android 15, and will receive one Android OS upgrade and two years of security updates
Kahaani: Dilli Ki — telling the many stories of the capital
A two-day festival at Travancore Palace celebrates Delhi’s layered history through music, food, craft and conversation
At Palette Art Gallery, Om Soorya reimagines landscape as a shifting inner terrain
The exhibition explores memory, erasure, and impermanence through large-scale paintings that resist fixed geography
‘If the work doesn’t challenge me, I walk away’, says Gullak actor Jameel Khan
Over 25 years across theatre, cinema and streaming — the Gullak actor on patience, destiny, invisible struggles, why comedy is the hardest genre and why fame was never the destination





