Facing The Music
Gulzar Bhat left carpet weaving and opted for carving out a niche of his own from the surging ‘faith business’. In a society preoccupied...
Reforming Reactionaries!
In the din of ‘rehabilitation policies’, one vital process aimed at reforming the reactionary youth is an underreported effort. Bilal Handoo reports the success...
The Kot Bhalwal Keepsaker
As India and Pakistan debate security in jails after the murder of Sarabjit Singh and Sanaullah Ranjay, Shams Irfan meets some of the families...
A Silent Takeover
J&K’s school education bill is going through the roof: Rs 2940 crore in 2012-13 to Rs 3238 crore next fiscal. For 12 classes, there...
The Silken Story
From fifteen lakh kilograms of cocoons produced in 1940 to just three lakh kilograms in 2012, the once profitable silk industry is struggling to...
Coalition at Crossroads
Rahul Gandhi and Omar Abdullah have been swearing by the relationship that the two political dynasties have had for generations in Jammu and Kashmir....
Missing Identity
Abandoned by their families and stigmatized by the community, the members of third gender in Kashmir are battling for their survival in an unjust...
Tempted Temporality
J&K has four Hindu Shrine Boards. Amidst fierce resistance to the idea of internal management and utilization of resources owned by temples in Kashmir...
Picniconomics
Tourism is cash and has instant trickledown effect on any economy. While the contribution of hospitality sector to the state’s overall economy is slightly...
A New Stone Age
As sections of youth try to standardize stone pelting as the new mode of communication, law enforcing agencies slide in the old era to...
Back to Basics
Ignoring the spate of curfews and strikes, an apparent repercussion of Afzal Guru’s hanging, the Fidayeen attack in Bemina is being used to blunt...
On The Edge
Events starting with the execution of Afzal Guru have led Kashmir to a situation in which it is either a call for a protest...
New Book, New Revelations
That Poonch rebellion and not the tribal raids were fundamental to the slicing of erstwhile Kashmir state is an established fact. But Christopher Snedden’s...
Knots of the NOOSE
Afzal Guru dropped out of medical college, crossed LoC, returned and surrendered. His protracted struggle to survive without becoming a surrogate soldier or a...
An Evolving Trust
Away from public gaze, a chain of schools across J&K has built massive infrastructure with community participation to educate more than 100000 boys and...
