Kashmir Life
Briefing October 5-11, 2025
ACHABAL
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has firmly rejected any alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party to expedite Jammu and Kashmir’s Statehood, saying he would rather...
What Does Kafka’s Metamorphosis Reveal About Human Bonds?
by Arjumand Qadir Kala
Kafka suggests that suffering, as cruel as it is, sometimes forces others into independence.
Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis is a meditation on...
Muzaffarabad Unrest 1.2
Protests in Muzaffarabad over power tariffs, subsidies and refugee seats echo 2024 unrest, exposing Pakistan’s governance failures and deepening alienation
Muzaffarabad, the capital of...
How Gaming Addiction is Affecting Kashmiri Students?
by Nasreenah Farooq
Monitoring screen time daily and limiting phone usage, particularly on Sundays, can encourage outdoor activities such as trekking, mountaineering, and swimming.
https://youtu.be/o0Zglb7cUd0?si=MDCmK-asp8xvzPMQ
Gaming addiction...
High-Altitude Unrest
High-Altitude Unrest
Violence in Ladakh highlights unresolved local demands and the urgent need for inclusive negotiations
The unrest in Ladakh in late September 2025 underscores the...
Who Speaks for the Gujjars of Jammu and Kashmir?
by Barkat Hussain
According to the 2011 Census, 69.35 per cent of Gujjars remain illiterate.
https://youtu.be/PqTPWkjvYp4?si=vmFwt4q9_aLt45Qd
In March 2025, while conducting ethnographic fieldwork, I arrived in...
How Does Exploitation Shape Perception?
by Aamir Altaf
Every Kashmiri student, artisan, and professional striving for dignity becomes a suspect. Our identity, once a source of pride, is being devalued.
The journey...
Can Kashmir Save Its Chinars?
by Abdul Wajid Parray
With approximately thirty-three thousand Chinars still standing, they may together absorb an estimated 1,650 metric tons of carbon dioxide and release...
Are Rohingya Refugees Testing International Resolve?
by Vibhu Mishra
More than eight years after over 750,000 Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar for sprawling camps in Bangladesh, the crisis remains unresolved. On Tuesday,...
What Are The Five Big Problems With Trump’s Gaza Plan?
by Ian Parmeter
Trump-Netanyahu 20-point Gaza plan offers a timely, flawed roadmap: trust deficit, asymmetry, vague implementation, West Bank omission and Israel’s hard-right cabinet and...
What Happened to Our Pir Vaer?
by Bareeza Rasheed
Choosing modesty in place of shamelessness. These choices may seem ordinary, but together they can revive a society.
https://youtu.be/cX5lvlGmY_Y?si=xPJDGnDUzjJV4Csw
There was once a land...
Can Jammu Kashmir’s Economy Survive 2025?
by Navaid Runyal
From the April Pahalgam attack to the September floods, 2025 has been one of the harshest years in recent memory for Jammu...
What Is Donald Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan?
by Asher Kaufman
The latest US-sponsored peace plan for the Middle East was unveiled at the White House on September 29, 2025, and immediately accepted...
Briefing September 28 – October 4, 2025
PAHALGAM
The Jammu and Kashmir Police arrested Mohammad Yousuf Katari, 26, from Kulgam in connection with the Pahalgam massacre of April 22, which killed 26...
Should You Marry With Open Eyes or a Blind Heart?
by Syed Majid Gilani
Marriage requires careful observation of character, family, and mutual respect; love, honesty, and choice are essential for a peaceful, lasting union.
My...
