Kashmir Life
Arinmaal Staged Kashmir’s Afghan Era Poetess’s Love Story
by Maleeha Sofi
SRINAGAR: The curtains rose to the sound of water gushing and birds chirping, offering an idea of a serene spot lacking noise...
What Is Kashmir’s Wartav and Guli Myiuth?
by MJ Aslam
Wartav takes two shapes in the Kashmiri community: cash and kind. It can be either or both on given occasions depending upon...
The Kashmir Morels
Like carpets that Kashmir weaves but ill-affords for itself, the valley produces more than 25 tons of costly morels that sell at a cost...
What Is Gene Editing and Why It Is Very Important to Twentyfirst Century?
by Prof Riaz A Shah
Genome editing in livestock has the potential to bring about significant improvements in productivity, health, and welfare, but there are...
A Potato Culture
Working in SKUAST-K’s potato laboratory, a scholar was desperate for the MS media, a key ingredient for tissue culture but the lab lacked funds....
Briefing February 26 – March 4, 2023
KATHMANDU
The Shopian Sqay Association players have won medals in two championships, 14 gold and four silver medals at South Asian Sqay Championship and Tri-National...
Sher Bagh, Anantnag
Once upon a time, the garden was an address for peak summer bathing, swimming and prayers. Now, Sher Bagh is a place for a...
Kashmir: First Land Settlement
Two years after the British "took over" the governance of Jammu and Kashmir and appointed Sir Oliver St John, the first British Resident on...
Why Pan-Chewing Is A Very Recent Phenomenon in Kashmir?
by MJ Aslam
And, the young ladies loved to hear and hum pan khae Sainya hamaro, sanvali suratiya hont lal lal, a musical melody of...
Briefing February 19-25, 2023
SRINAGAR
In an interesting twist in the Kashmir tale, the police booked three ‘leaders’ of a post-2019 “political party” under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention)...
How India’s Fiscal Rules Strike A Balance Between Two Extremes?
by Arshid Hussain Peer and Munshir C
The current budget has allocated a higher share to capital expenditure which is a step in the right...
What is Gene Editing and How Could It Shape Our Future?
by Gavin Bowen-Metcalf
Gene editing is a controversial topic. Unless governments work together with scientists to regulate its use, it could become another technology that...
How The Greed and Materialism Undo Relationbships?
by Hurmat Altaf.
"The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him—six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land...
Kashmir’s Sweetmeats, Candies
Kashmir is famous for its multicourse mutton cuisine, the Wazwaan. That, however, never means that there are no candies and sweetmeats endemic to Kashmir,...
Briefing February 12-18, 2023
BARAMULLA
Kashmir folklore has always talked about Kruhun Sheen, the black snow, as a mark of disbelief and a complete topsy-turvy of natural systems. The...
