Kashmir: Omar’s Ganderbal Battle
After representing it five of the seven times after 1975, Omar Abdullah is seriously attempting to reclaim Ganderbal for the family. Though a bastion...
Kashmir: Democracy Costs
As Jammu and Kashmir’s political class races to the assembly in the first election since the fall of 2014, Syed Shadab Ali Gillani reports...
Kashmir Polls: A Curtain Raiser
As Jammu and Kashmir is racing to elect 90 members to the assembly that has lost its authority and sting in the last five...
Kashmir: Rediscovering Beauty Secrets
Using local resources, young men and women are rediscovering Kashmir’s age-old beauty traditions to create innovative skincare products. From saffron-infused creams to rosewater toners,...
Kashmir’s Fashion Frontier
In the last few years, a group of new-age entrepreneurs innovated the tradition and converted it into a fashion statement. The process fetched Kashmir...
Kashmir’s Retiree Renaissance
As ages improve, individuals take their retirement just as a milestone and restart new careers. From venturing into entrepreneurship and re-entering professions to cultivating...
Kashmir’s Extravagant Weddings
Kashmir is witnessing an unsettling shift towards extravagant and ostentatious weddings reducing once-simple ceremonies to history books. Dictated by unreal soap shows on the...
Electing A Rubber Stamp?
As the Ministry of Home Affairs reiterated the provisions outlined in Jammu and Kashmir's post-2019 reorganisation, the political class expressed their anger and frustration...
Kashmir: A Thirsty Village
Four members of a 9-member family in a north Kashmir village died in a road accident while they were driving with 1200 litres of...
A Veteran’s Kashmir Ventures
An Australian teacher gave up his profession and started trekking into the Himalayas till he fell for Kashmir. These off-track treks led him to...
How al-Fatah Was Dismantled?
Before retiring from service during the tumultuous 1990s, IPS officer Ali M Watali played a pivotal role in supervising the arrest of numerous militants...
Medieval Kashmir: Texts and Contexts
Medieval Kashmir witnessed massive shifts in the region’s faith, politics and economy. Credit goes to historian Prof Mohibbul Hasan for offering Kashmir a book...
Sacrificed Eid Market
On the eve of Eid 2024, Syed Shadab Ali Gillani and Babra Wani visited the key Srinagar markets and found them deserted. While the...
Kashmir’s First Gentlemen Contest
Given the power, an elected enjoys, the elections across the world are a cut-throat race that involves everything from mudslinging to scandalising people. For...
Omar, Mehbooba: United In Loss
The just concluded Lok Sabha saw two former Chief Ministers losing an election for the first time. Babra Wani attempts an explanation
“I think it’s...