Kashmir Life
Can Kashmir Save Its Lost Generation From Addiction and Despair?
by Umar Farooq
Kashmir faces a devastating addiction crisis consuming its youth, fuelled by heroin, systemic failures, corruption, trauma, and unemployment, demanding collective action rooted...
Can Jammu and Kashmir Achieve a Fair and Transparent Reservation Framework Without A Data...
by Bhat Hilal Ahmad
A data-driven reassessment of Jammu and Kashmir’s reservation structure, release of the GD Sharma report, and revisiting Rule 17 are essential...
Kashmir’s Hidden Wars
Harinder Baweja’s memoir travels through Kashmir’s decades of conflict, revealing intimate grief, political ruptures, covert operations and institutional failures, portraying a region where violence,...
What Does It Mean to Live with Spiritual Elegance?
by Mursaleen Bashir
Spiritual elegance is the quiet beauty of kindness, humility, and inner peace, expressed through small choices that nurture harmony, truth, and compassion.
Spiritual...
How Were Kashmir’s Mediaeval Stone Marvels Built With Such Precision?
by Iqbal Ahmad
Kashmir’s massive stone monuments, locally called Pandav Lari, display uniform design and striking Greco-Roman influence. Despite extensive studies, the technology behind lifting...
From Hukka to Heroin: How Is Substance Abuse Affecting Kashmir?
by Dr Farooq A Lone
Kashmir faces a deepening drug addiction crisis, fuelled by conflict, unemployment, changing substances, and organised networks. Experts warn society risks...
Is the Planet Really Facing a Baby Bust Or a Crisis of High-Consumption Lifestyles?
by Dr Vijay Garg
The crisis is not declining births but rising high-consumption lifestyles; ecological limits are breached while inequality and women’s lack of freedom...
Briefing December 7-13, 2025
JAMMU KASHMIR
The Lt Governor Manoj Sinha administration has announced a revised ex gratia framework for casualties and injuries related to law and order duties...
Why Is Kashmir’s Education System Failing to Prepare Its Students for the Modern World?
by Haroon Rashid
Kashmir’s education system, bound by outdated curricula, narrow career expectations, weak infrastructure, and stagnant institutions, leaves students unprepared, unmentored, and disconnected from...
Do Scientific Bonds Reflect the Way Humans Form Relationships?
by Nisar Farhad
How do scientific principles quietly echo Qur’anic wisdom and the emotional architecture of human connection?
Human relationships are often portrayed as unpredictable, emotional,...
Kashmir: Age-Relief Stalemate
Aspirants face mounting uncertainty as Jammu and Kashmir’s age-relaxation decision stalls, leaving the JKCCE examination clouded by administrative delay and confusion
The Jammu and Kashmir...
Mistrust Consumes Opportunity
After the Delhi blast, widespread profiling has shut doors for Kashmiri students and professionals, shrinking jobs, admissions and opportunities across India.
The weeks following the...
Is Kashmir Becoming a Society Where Emotions Must Die in Silence?
by Javaid Ahmad Lone and Irfan Ahmad
Kashmir’s communal emotional spaces are fading, triggering rising mistrust, commodified identities, and a deepening mental-health crisis. It urges...
The Technology Trap
A retreat to Wales meant to rediscover peace collapses under the weight of digital addiction, as broadcaster Nayeema Ahmad Mahjoor’s entire family fails to...
Did the Sanchar Saathi Mandate Cross Constitutional Lines On Privacy?
by Owais Amin Khan
The government’s initial Sanchar Saathi mandate triggered sharp criticism over privacy violations, constitutional overreach, and surveillance risks. Its rollback, after public...
