A Fading Art
Kashmir produces one of the world’s most expensive handmade carpets but the artisans associated with the lucrative Qaleen industry are abandoning the trade of...
Karewa Craftsmen
Pampore is usually associated with the costly spice Saffron. But it is rare public knowledge that a vibrant apparel cluster is fighting odds to...
The Cross LoC Circus
As cross LoC trade completes four years, the state government has increased the overall infrastructure and requested New Delhi to include 98 more items...
The Black Sheep
Kashmir produces seven million kg of wool a year but lacks the capacity to process even one per cent of it. Sold at throwaway...
Willow Village
Shalabugh village in central Kashmir has pioneered the craft of weaving the famous willow baskets. Due to a lack of proper marketing and distribution,...
Revolutionising Travel
The introduction of Snow Cabs taxi service has become an eyesore for conventional taxi operators in Srinagar. Started by three young Kashmiri entrepreneurs, the...
Sunday Shopping Gala
At the crack of dawn on Sundays, a mile-long stretch in Kashmir’s summer capital, Srinagar, turns into a lucrative space where transactions worth millions...
Back to Business in Gulmarg
The violence in Kashmir is at an all-time low and a record number of tourists have visited the valley this year. Nazir Ahmad Rather profiles...
The Orphanage Business
Kashmir orphans are a dispossessed lot. Some of them are slowly falling prey to a stressful life spent behind the closed walls of ramshackled...
The Shrine Contribution
A small shrine nested in Kashmir’s Pir Panchal Mountains in Shahadra Sharief funded a huge university in Rajouri’s backyard. The Ghulam Shah Badshah University...
The Ramzan Blessing
A highly stressful Kashmir society dogged by cancers and cardiac crisis is consuming tons of nutritious, anti-carcinogenic, soothing super-foods to break evening fast. R...
Feeding tourists
Catering is the spirit that sustains tourism. Most of the Indian tourists who make the record numbers visiting Kashmir now are vegetarians, but that...
Encouraging new tourist business
Over the moon for its successful campaign for boosting tourism, the authorities in Kashmir are roping in new entrepreneurs for investing in the fun...
The Invisible Palanquin Man
Hundreds of thousands of devout Hindus visit the Kashmir Himalayas every year for pilgrimage to the Amarnath cave shrine. Many old, infirm or rich...
Barter’s Fear Factor
Traders who barter select merchandise at two windows on the LoC since October 2008 have managed an overall turnover of Rs 1600 crore since...
