Kashmir Colleges: Empty Classrooms
The colleges across Kashmir are exhibiting a historic nosedive in new admissions, a trend evading a clear reason. In an attempt to deconstruct the...
Pul Se Pul Tak: Rediscovering The City of Bridges
Broadcast journalist, Iqra Akhoon who produced a rare and well-received heritage web series focusing on the life and times around the historic bridges of Srinagar, jots...
Inside Kashmir Women’s Drug Closet
The media reporting about Kashmir having tens of thousands of female drug addicts is unfairly fancy and fake. But that never means a small...
Kashmir’s Willow Wonders
With around four million cricket bats being manufactured every year, the ongoing World Cup has spiked the market appetite for the Kashmir Willow. Syed...
The Nilgrar Narrative
The last village on the foothills of Zoji La does not offer a breath-taking view of the Singh Valley alone. It is a model village...
Poll Perplexity
Within days after the pollster started working towards holding the local body polls later this year, credible reports suggest the exercise may not take...
To Hell and Back
Quite a few girls get enticed by the drugs but whoever lands in the mess loses almost everything till a rescue and rehabilitation is...
Nobody’s Children
Orphans apart, hundreds of children are living the lives of orphans within and outside their homes as a consequence of divorces, matrimonial discords and...
Travelling to Teetwal
Made famous by a Manto's short story and later literally living it for a long time, Teetwal in Tanghdar is a changed frontier now....
(Un)Making Art 370
In the Supreme Court, a battery of top constitutional lawyers revisited more than 70 years of the making and unmaking of Article 370 while...
Kashmir’s Elder Neglect?
After they raise families and give it what they afford, sections of the elderly population feel lonely, neglected and in rare cases abandoned. While...
Bullish Banking
As peace prevails, the banking sector has performed well in the last fiscal. Though the focus remains on cleaner balance sheets, State Sponsored Schemes...
Shaken Innocence
Child Sex Abuse (CSA) has remained a real big challenge in Kashmir and continues to be so. The other crisis is that people speak...
Kashmir’s Elusive Marriages
From classism to economic independence, a lot of factors have cropped up to create a giant shadow over humanity’s oldest institution of marriage in...
A Downsized Government?
With joblessness at its peak and the markets in a slump, frustration is soaring in Jammu and Kashmir’s youth bulge which has nearly eight...
