Surviving the Storm
In Kashmir’s ongoing drug menace, spreading like an epidemic, the focus remains on the addict, the ‘victim’ of the crisis. Babra Wani met the...
Kashmir’s Winter Warmth
Spending days in the sunshine and freezing in bone-chilling Chillai Kalan nights, the desert weather has pushed Kashmir to the edge. A ‘bald’ Gulmarg...
Kashmir’s Bakshi Era
In her book, A Fate Written On Matchboxes, Hafsa Kanjwal, a Kashmir-origin American scholar, revisits the structure and systems in the decade-old rule by...
Tamed, Not Caged
Chitralekha Zutshi’s book, Sheikh Abdullah – The Caged Lion of Kashmir is by far the most perceptive work on Abdullah but is short of...
Waltengu Nar: A Hamlet of Broken Bones
As the distant down-south Waltengu Nar village was slowly recovering from the 2005 tragedy, where over 180 residents were frozen to death by a...
Undoing the Indelibility
For ages, people have been undergoing a very painful process of engraving symbolic memories for the sake of their beliefs, love and life lessons....
Bleeding Borders
With militancy in Kashmir under massive pressure, it is gradually getting revived in Pir Panchal Valley. There have been a series of fatal attacks...
Ponzi Paradise
Regardless of the robust security and surveillance systems in place, Kashmir has emerged as a fraud-abundant territory. Almost every season, frauds innovate their style...
Article 370: The Verdict
Four years after political parties and concerned citizens flocked to the Supreme Court challenging the reading down of Article 370, and the bifurcation of...
Jammu and Kashmir: The Dynasts
Families have remained at the centre of politics in Jammu and Kashmir. Since 2014, this has emerged as the main critique of the institution...
The Last Lot?
Jammu Kashmir history’s most financially empowered Panchayat, elected in a challenging situation in 2018 amid boycott and threats, is completing its term in early...
The Cashmere Content
At a time when efforts are underway to request the search giant Google to add Kashmiri to its translation services, Khalid Bashir Gura met...
Kashmir Under A Spell
In a bid to undo the competition, a section of Kashmir society has traditionally used Sihar. This encourages potential superstitious targets to seek protection...
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...
