Kashmir Life
Certifying Dogras
With National Conference justifying Congress’s decision of bestowing Jammu province with ‘Dogra Certificates’, the issue is gradually snowballing into a crisis in Kashmir. A...
R K Jerath, IAS
It is probably the first major decision that the state legislature took almost unanimously in many years. They asked the government to attach senior...
Democracy Costs, You Know?
Elections, as they say, are the first step towards the democracy. Once elected, they may or may not deliver but the system has to...
Dummy parade
More than nine months after the killing of teenager Tufail Matoo, the policeman who fired the shell that killed him is yet to be...
Lawless Law
While the state government has been calling for repealing of AFSPA, it has generally evaded debates on PSA over which it has all the...
Fighting disease with technology
Khyber Medical institute has introduced some latest cardiac procedures in Kashmir, where experts say 12 percent of the population above 30 may be suffering...
Wedded to wood
Lolab, literally the waters of love, is one of the most beautiful places in Kashmir inhabited by beautiful, hardworking people mired in tradition and...
Chugging Along
Kashmir train has provided a cheaper, faster more reliable alternative to travel in Kashmir. Saima Riyaz takes a trip on a sunny March day.
A...
Kashmir Fault Line
Kashmir has no access to nuclear energy. It cannot even hope to have one in the given situation. But that does not lessen the...
The only job
Almost all the young men of a forest village in Baramulla district indulge in timber smuggling, while the dealers make huge profits they continue...
Lost course
The rivulet with gushing milky white clean waters has given way to a stinking seawage drain and some government offices, malls, and residential colonies...
Unbridgeable
The famous wooden bridges of Valley added to uniqueness of the Kashmir’s architecture and have served people for centuries. Aliya Bashir reports.
Wood was the...
The Disconnect
Many historic routes connect Kashmir to the outside world. It has been an important place on the silk route but the political changes in...
Lost in Modernity
The traditional architecture is no more in fashion in Kashmir, which many believe was more suited to the valley’s climatic conditions. Ibrahim Wani reports.
Zahoor...
Too heavy to take along
Food adulteration was unheard of in Kashmir as every household would prepare spices themselves, even husking of rice was done in homes. With the...
