Walnut Falls
Farmers, businessmen and politicians exhibit no difference when they start counting the foreign exchange earnings, almost stagnant for the last few years. Muhammad Younis...
A ‘Ghost’ Market
In 2003, the Mufti government took over SKIMS, the Gupkar Nursing Home and Dr Ali Jan Shopping Complex from a Trust that the National...
Camping a Life
Camping and trekking have remained associated with the high-end schools and colleges in Kashmir. Shams Irfan reports the emergence of a new enterprise that...
Dignified Life Explained
When a crisis hits a family, especially its head, what happens? In most of the cases, the wives desert them and settle somewhere else....
Loss at Lethpora
For an improved quality of travel, the new highway bypassed all the major markets barring Lethpora and Sangam. But, Muhammad Younis reports that behind...
Broken Brushes
With the onset of digital platforms, most of the painters and the artists who would draw signpost, business hoardings and road milestones have gone...
Eating Dog Food
Punjabi poultry farmers have used politics to retain Kashmir as their main market to sell used layers and parents’ chicks’ that otherwise is dog...
Nun Chai Samavar
Now when electric power and a whole range of innovations have started impacting the traditional ways of cooking and serving Kashmir foods and tea,...
Trading Blows
Kashmir’s trade and industry is confronted with certain basic issues. But the situation in which it operates for the last nearly 30 years, the...
Aircel: Out of reach
As Aircel, the second largest cell phone service provider controlling 30 percent market in the state closed its shop, following its bankruptcy, it has...
Corn on the go
A simple idea that came outside a movie theater in Qatar helped two engineer friends introduce sweet corn carts in Kashmir. Umar Mukhtar tells...
2-Wheeled Orchestra
Once made popular by the Bollywood, the complex two-wheelers are making a gradual comeback to the Kashmir road after a brand new showroom makes...
TAAI-Up
As the state tourism ministry is trying to help revive the hospitality sector, facing a historic slump for the last three years, stakeholders suggest...
In Avanitvarman’s Capital
When the Islamic University was established in the deserted foothills of Awantipore, the naysayers said the campus hardly suits a small highway town, home...
An Elusive Brand
From the days, Kashmir fell into the lap of Mughals, Kashmir remained a brand. Half a millennium later, it is facing a crisis, reports...
