Kashmir: A Mandate Marginalised
Despite a landslide mandate, Omar Abdullah leads a government stripped of autonomy, with key powers resting in the Raj Bhawan, revealing the deep imbalance...
Kashmir’s Madhouse: A Swiss Psychiatrist’s Story
In The Madhouse at the Lotus Lake, Erna Hoch’s memoir of psychiatric practice in 1980s Kashmir, the Swiss psychiatrist explores psychiatry’s fragile intersection with...
The Ladakh Unrest
Violence swept Ladakh on September 24 as protests over statehood and Sixth Schedule inclusion spiralled into clashes, leaving four dead and dozens injured, even...
Kashmir: Highway Hits Harvest
Kashmir’s apple economy is facing historic losses due to the August rains, highway blockages, and disrupted supply chains. High-density orchards, cold storage, and MIS...
Kashmir: The Shrine of Faith
The emblem controversy at the renovated Hazratbal Shrine reignited Kashmir’s enduring tensions between faith and politics. Revered as the resting place of the holy...
Kashmir: The Deluge Debate
The Jhelum surged past its danger marks again in September 2025, reviving memories of 2014. Frequent floods, unchecked mining, weak infrastructure, and climate extremes...
Kashmiri: Mind on Edge
Kashmir faces a deepening psychological crisis where conflict trauma, drug addiction, stigma, screen overexposure, joblessness and anger intertwine. Psychiatry battles neglect, faith, and silence,...
Kashmir’s Cloudburst Horror
The Chashoti cloudburst during the Machail Yatra killed 65, left dozens missing, and devastated the Sapphire-rich Padder Valley’s picturesque hamlet. Survivors recall terror, rescuers...
Kashmir: Poison on the Plate
After an unlettered driver blew the whistle, a sweeping crackdown in Jammu and Kashmir exposed a dangerous supply chain of rotten meat, spoiled rice,...
Kashmir: Heal The Hospital
Kashmir’s public healthcare system is collapsing under the weight of apathy and neglect. From the crowded wards of Srinagar’s tertiary hospitals to the under-equipped...
Srinagar Remembers
In Yaadgah, Berlin-based Kashmir scholar Arshi Javaid gathers a group of women to map their lived experiences of Shehr-e-Kashmir through memory, not merely as...
Karakoram’s Last Aryans?
High in the Karakoram, beyond the reach of satellites and modern roads, lies the Aryan Valley, home to the Brokpas, a people whose origins...
Kashmir’s Papermaking Past
Kashmir’s centuries-old tradition of handmade paper, once renowned across empires, has now completely vanished. No tools, workshops, or artisans remain; only fading memories and...
Kashmir: The Embedded Memories
Masood Hussain’s account of living with a splinter wound in Kashmir becomes a lens to explore how violence embeds itself physically in people’s lives,...
Kashmir: A Summer of Heat and Hunger
As Kashmir reels under one of its harshest summers in recent memory, its canals have run dry, crops are wilting, and livestock are perishing....
