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Floods

This section is about the history and devastation created by floods. It also carries detailed reportage about the rehabilitation processes and policy interventions to manage if not to prevent the floods.

Deprived

Moving from water to land could have earned them a better social status but the lethargic system in place made them face worse. 36...

Cast Away

They have lost everything to floods but hope and their favourite toys. Living in makeshifts tents these tender souls have created a new life...

Rebuilding Homes

Moving beyond rescue and relief operations, the team headed by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq started reconstruction of 100 houses for the “neediest of the needy”...

Drowned and Silenced 

After rendered homeless in September floods, a mother lost her son who was out to rescue people. Four months after, her woe is yet...

Good, old Radio

When all others modern means of connectivity got washed out in recent floods it was the good old radio set that helped people stay...

An Itchy Discount

Post flood, sales in Srinagar and elsewhere saw huge turnout of shoppers looking for cheap bargains. But using flood-affected items ended up people queuing...

Khadermoh: A Forgettable Village

With a history of floods dating back to half a century villagers in Khadermoh hoped that water will not get beyond their plinth levels....

Next Desk Please…

One family’s ordeal with government’s dilly-dallying while disbursing compensation post floods has left them questioning the system. Saima Bhat narrates the painful tale of...

Kandizal: A Vicious Web

The official blame game after recent floods has once again brought this godforsaken village called Kandizal into focus. But is Kandizal really worth all...

A Home without Windows

The devastating floods of September made many people home-less. Some of them living in the make-shift camps are trying to fight the loss and...

A Case of Vanishing Tents

Almost three months after devastating floods, tents meant to shelter victims remain unaccounted for in Pampore. With official passing the buck people are forced...

Brave Hearts of GB Panth Hospital

Amid fear, chaos and rising tempers, eleven doctors kept their nerves intact to save 300 infants admitted at GB Pant hospital during recent floods....

Kashmir Floods: A Chronology

Er. Mohammad Ashraf Fazili Kashmiris have faced floods since the very beginning of life in the valley. Over the years, many measures were adopted to...

1905 Floods: A First Hand Account

A British author T R Swinburne along with many of his friends was visiting Kashmir when they were caught in the floods in 1905,...

Flooded Faithfully

It was not individual greed or the policy failure at the highest decision-making levels only that Kashmir’s watercourse is facing barriers. Even the faithful...