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Sunday, March 24, 2024
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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’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...

Kashmir’s Insomniacs

Mental morbidity is a rampant issue in Kashmir. Off late, individuals requiring medications for a night of better sleep are gradually increasing and it...

Kashmir: Land, Landlords, Land Redistribution

Even though most of the laws governing land management in Jammu and Kashmir witnessed rudimentary shifts in the last few years, the land resource...

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....

Half A Decade

Jammu and Kashmir completed 1825 days (five years) without an elected government on June 19, 2023. With impressive tourist footfall, minimal militancy and not...

Desolate Markets

Markets across Kashmir used to be teeming with activity in the days ahead of Eid, a situation that is missing yet again. Syed Shadab...

The Fantasy Fever

Finally, cricket has gone beyond the game. A huge business, it always had a betting business around. Now the virtual world has squeezed it...

Kashmir’s Knife Crimes

It requires a lot of comparative data to suggest if teenage knife crimes have gone up but the fact is incidents of stabbing are...

Adopted Parenthood

With fertility going down and the number of childless couples increasing, Kashmir is witnessing a demand-supply gap in child adoptions. Post-2019, a new system...

G20 In Kashmir

Months of preparations and tons of efforts resulted in an incident-free G20 TWG meeting amid unprecedented security measures in Kashmir. Discussions around sustainable development...

Making Kashmir G20 Ready

For months, Jammu and Kashmir's administration has been working overtime to ensure the G20 Tourism Working Group meeting is an incident-free success. Given the...

Kanihama: The Loom Village

A central Kashmir village is home to the most expensive Shawls that Kashmir weaves. Raashid Andrabi and Insha Shirazi spent some time with the...

‘Artificial Intelligence is Another Revolution’

From a state-run secondary school in Srinagar to IBM’s Watson Lab and now the Director of Engineering (AI) at LinkedIn, Dr Faisal Farooq has...

Kashmir’s Narasimha Rao Days

The worst period of Kashmir militancy coincided with PV Narasimha Rao’s term as Prime Minister. How he handled the goriest situation ever, its diplomatic...