Trading Nightmares
Recent onion crisis briefly brought LoC trade back into focus when truckloads of onions reached Kashmir markets and eased soaring prices. But ban and...
THE SCARLET PLUM
As plum season coincided with the holy month of Ramadan this year, the soft, sweet and sour fruit is fading fast from the shelves....
Mission Commercialised
Running from government leased land, ‘charitable mission’ schools in Srinagar charge huge amount from students in the name of education. Syed Asma reports the...
Killing Me Softly
Models draped in Kashmiri Pashmina shawls once graced the ramps of Milan. But with technological intervention giving rise to adulteration, Pashmina is losing both...
LeLafe: Connecting Kashmir
With an aim to take local business units to the global stage, LeLafe IT Solution, started an online marketplace exclusively for Kashmiris. Saima Bhat...
Leather Lackluster!
Due to highest per capita consumption of mutton and beef, Kashmir is major exporter of raw material to leather industry in North India. But...
iQuasar: Touching New Heights
Undeterred by poor internet connectivity and official apathy, three friends started an IT company from a small room in Srinagar, a decade back. Saima...
Mutton Blues!
The standoff between government and mutton retailers has put the mutton-loving majority in Kashmir on the edge as powerful middlemen who control the supply...
The Cherry Story
The major cherry belt in central Kashmir was afflicted by a disease in 2003 which had brought down the production. However, with government coming...
Certifying Pashmina
A trip to Delhi made Kashmiri artisans realize that fake Pashmina products are threatening their survival in the market making them explore options like...
Formalizing Business
In wake of the crisis over the quality of medicines that government purchases for its hospitals in Kashmir, Omar Abdullah government revived Congress’s plan...
Strawberry Economy
A quiet village on the outskirts of Srinagar is at the forefront of a change in Kashmir’s fruit market in the last decade. With...
The Karakoram Trade
With Chinese troops ‘occupying’ a part of eastern Ladakh for more than a fortnight now, it is the ‘unofficial’ trade between people at the...
A Silent Takeover
J&K’s school education bill is going through the roof: Rs 2940 crore in 2012-13 to Rs 3238 crore next fiscal. For 12 classes, there...
Colors of Rangreez
Colours of shawls, pashmina and other Kashmiri art fabrics are known to fill senses with delight. But behind such pleasant colours, there is a...
