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Society

Richest repository of the trends, practices, numbers and the way of life of people inhabiting Jammu and Kashmir

Kashmir’s Elder Neglect?

After they raise families and give it what they afford, sections of the elderly population feel lonely, neglected and in rare cases abandoned. While...

Kashmir’s Women Wedding Photographers

With unease dominating the scene as males direct bride poses during weddings, many young and brave women located an opportunity in the digital surge...

Shaken Innocence

Child Sex Abuse (CSA) has remained a real big challenge in Kashmir and continues to be so. The other crisis is that people speak...

Kashmir’s Elusive Marriages

From classism to economic independence, a lot of factors have cropped up to create a giant shadow over humanity’s oldest institution of marriage in...

Mahr Matters

Gradually Muslim women are getting educated about the importance of the Mahr and in lot many weddings the brides seek a berth in the...

A Perpetual Pain

Suicide leaves behind a legacy of suffering, burdening the ones who remain with a loss. Maleeha Sofi reports the costs of suicides that survivors...

Kashmir’s Insomniacs

Mental morbidity is a rampant issue in Kashmir. Off late, individuals requiring medications for a night of better sleep are gradually increasing and it...

The Serial Bride?

A number of Kashmir men not affording the “expensive weddings” back home married a divorcee living on the Pir Panchal foothills. Months after the...

Pervasive Harassment

Though a criminal offence with a punishment that can go up to three years of imprisonment, young women in Kashmir silently face harassment on...

Silent Scars

Too many teenagers, mostly girls, resort to self-harm in extreme situations to manage their anger, pain, anguish and bad memories. Babra Wani interacts with...

Second Lives

A number of people live two lives. They do something for a living and a completely different thing for passion. Muskan Fatima meets a...

Adopted Parenthood

With fertility going down and the number of childless couples increasing, Kashmir is witnessing a demand-supply gap in child adoptions. Post-2019, a new system...

Tengpora Slum

Driven by poverty and the hunt for livelihoods, a group of Nagrota families is living near Batamaloo in a tented slum to make a...

Gurus: The Kashmir Drink

A by-product in traditional butter making, buttermilk has been the most consumed drink in Kashmir for centuries. With machines taking over the skimming and...

Making Kashmir Home

Trafficking women into Kashmir for marriages is an old story. What is new is that not every one of the women lives an unhappy...