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...
The College Crisis
With a huge network of colleges and a lot of enrolment, the students are dissatisfied with the pace and process of the education they...
Kashmir’s Early Introduction to Islam
Centuries before the arrival of Shah-e-Hamadan and the rise of Sheikh Nooruddin Noorani in the fourteenth century, Kashmir knew about Islam and Muslims. Rajatarangini,...
The SKIMS Story
In the 40 years of its existence, the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), a deemed university, has emerged as a key research and...
O’ Pir Panchal
After remaining invincible and impregnable for centuries, the mighty Pir Panchal is witnessing enormous developmental activity for a new expressway, a challenging railway line...
Property Tax Controversy
Abandoned many times in the recent past, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has started the process of imposing a property tax that is estimated...
Kashmir: First Land Settlement
Two years after the British "took over" the governance of Jammu and Kashmir and appointed Sir Oliver St John, the first British Resident on...
Kashmir’s New Landmarks
In an apparent overdrive to reclaim the landed assets, encroached upon over the years, the Jammu and Kashmir administration moved bulldozers and created a...
Kashmir’s Women Scientists
Historically, the women in Kashmir have remained empowered enough to be part of every sphere of life. Though they have traditionally picked a set...
2022: Most Watched ‘Songs’
An artist’s song went viral because everyone hated it. Welcome to the world of cringe choices, writes Raashid Andrabi while listing the top Kashmiri...
Crowd Content
With the effective takeover of personal communication by the internet-powered cell phone, hundreds of fortune hunters and vested interests are generating content for a...
Landlock
The Jammu and Kashmir government’s campaign to retrieve the state land encroached upon by individuals, institutions and communities is at its peak. Even though...
