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Monday, January 27, 2025
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Cover Story

This is the major copy on most important happening in a week that usually features on page one of the magazine

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...

Jashn e Ramzan 2: Behind the Lens

Shuaib Wani revisits his 30-day non-stop journey with Umar Dar and Shadab Gillani After the newsroom decided to get into Jashn-e-Ramzan (JeR) 2, with a...

Jashn-e-Ramzan 2: Scripting A Show

Babra Wani recounts how she and her team defied hunger and thirst while researching from the most sensitive religious text a script for a...

Jashn-e-Ramzan 2: Editing An Epic

As editor of the 30-part series, Iqra Akhoon shares her transformative quest, and how the pursuit of excellence can transform both the creator and...

The Making of Jashn-e-Ramzan 2

Four months after travelling more than 3000 km for the 30-episode Jashn-e-Ramzan 2, Syed Shadab Ali Gillani recounts the highs and lows of travelling across...

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...
wedding, marriage

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...
Near Khanqah-e-Moala British colourist William Carpenter Junior (1818-1899) has drawn this picture during one of his three visits to Kashmir. the most Known was in 1853.

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...