Royal Nuts
For five weeks every fall, Sweet Chestnuts sell roasted on the Srinagar city streets at a cost not matched by any other fruit. Humaira...
Sampat Prakash Kundu (1937-2023)
An unconventional, fearless and outspoken Kashmiri Pandit who would speak for Kashmir without dividing it into communities and compartments, Sampat Prakash died at 86....
2023: Kashmri’s Music Chart
Even though smart individuals with the smartest technology manage the best visuals for their sub-average songs to attract more eyeballs, still, unlike in 2021...
Uncovering a cover up?
As the mystery about the gang rape and murder in Shopian slowly unfolds, the investigative lapses and interventions in the case are becoming strikingly...
The Daughter
Caught in the vortex of multi-polar violence, Razia Sultan’s fight to trace her disappeared father on both sides of LoC is of epic proportions....
Black April
Contemporary history lacks a clear analysis of the events that unfolded in Kashmir following ZA Bhutto’s execution. More than 35 years after Suhail A...
Ghar Wapsi?
PDP led government is seemingly unwilling to offer them space. Renewed militancy too does not care much about them. And India’s top spymaster A...
The Groundbreakers
After creating its own identity in the situation that engulfed Kashmir in recent past, Sonawari belt suffered silently under an exploitative broker rule pushing...
Growing Global Apple
Within less than a year, a state funded scheme has started changing Kashmir periphery. Growers have started understanding the importance of axing more than...
Business of Death
Unlike most of the Muslim societies, the death in parts of Kashmir triggers a protracted commercial exercise that involves a set of professionals and...
A Costly Recess
As around 160 thousand students are writing their examinations for three classes, Umar Khurshid revisits the state of education and the schooling in the...
Corona Carnage?
In comparison to the first 100 days, Kashmir doubled up the Covid-19 body-bags in succeeding 25 days. Now more die young without co-morbidities. As...
Wrecked Families
Behind the desperation at the official and societal level for halting the spread of Covid19 and deny any space to the third wave, are...
Unusual Outages
Unprecedented load shedding has pushed angry consumers to the streets in Jammu and Srinagar forcing power managers to explore all options within their reach....
Making Cancer Fight Cancer
After a series of failures in various laboratories across the globe, Dr Khalid Shah, a young Kashmir scientist, currently, a professor at the Harvard...
