Kashmir Life
Threads Of Discontent
The traditional Kashmiri shawl is facing an alarming decline in demand due to convincing duplicates manufactured outside the state. Majid Maqbool explores the rich...
Batting For Second Life
The cricket bat industry of Kashmir has seen better days. As Shams Irfan reports, it’s a blend of all the wrong ingredients that’s leading...
The Birth of Noori
A goat cloned in Kashmir brings laurels and global attention to the scientists at SKAUST. Majid Maqbool goes behind the scenes of a homegrown...
Jammu Kashmir: Houses and the Households
India’s Census Organisation has released data about buildings, their use and the occupants, besides the basic requirements of the population living in them.
Profound changes...
When Believing ‘Heals’
Despite great advances in medicine, something has remained unchanged. The tradition of faith healing has survived in Kashmir. Shams Irfan caught up with some of...
LoC Travel: Seven Years After
Opening the Jhelum Valley Road (JVR) connecting Srinagar with Muzaffarabad, the Pakistani administered Kashmir (PaK) capital in April 2005 was a path-breaking initiative between...
Trapped in the cycle
The chief minister’s amnesty to hundreds of arrested stone throwing protesters of 2010, ‘Eidi from elders to youngsters’ turned out to be a mirage....
Sheikh M Abdullah
Post-1975, National Conference remained genuinely concerned over New Delhi’s failure in recognizing the contributions that its founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah made. The takeover of...
No Fishy Business
The exotic rainbow fish is providing employment avenues in Kashmir, where joblessness dogs hundreds of thousands of youth. Inam ul Haq reports.
Kaleem Ahmad Bandey...
Snoozing The Snoring
by Arshid Malik
Now, the matter at hand is that I am a brilliant (read disgusting) snorer and there is hardly anything I want to...
The Poetic Quadrate
by Zubair Lone
Allama Iqbal in one of his poems “Peer o Mureed- an ideational dialogue between Maulana Rumi and Allama Iqbal” from his book...
Banks In Business: A Half Year Review
After three tumultuous summers, banks operating across J&K are up and kicking. In the six months ending September 2011, their deposits – mostly CASA,...
Conflict And Chemistry
Militarized conflicts affect every aspect of social and private life. In Kashmir the last two decades have brought about a mental health catastrophe, but...
Off the Track
While inadequate transport facilities in J&K cause hardship to general public, the official carrier has lent its newly acquired fleet of buses to various...
InshAllah Kashmir
Amid a raging debate recently in India about freedom of expression, filmmaker Ashvin Kumar bypassed the censor board and released his film about Kashmir...
