The ‘Other Side’ of Romance
Once they crossed the LoC, Kashmiri youth were the new heroes in Pakistani society. Many married, raised families and lived a happy life. As...
The Black Sheep
Kashmir produces seven million kg of wool a year but lacks the capacity to process even one per cent of it. Sold at throwaway...
Dangers of Democracy
Panchayati Raj Institutions were peddled to usher Kashmir in a new era of gross root development but the mysterious assassinations triggered mass resignations and...
CONDEMNED INNOCENCE
For all these years, students, businessmen and travellers from Kashmir were routinely arrested in Delhi and elsewhere, shown on TV, given a bad name...
Pashmina Politics
Centuries after Kashmir made Cashmere a global fashion statement, the Rs 600 crore heritage Shawl sector feels compelled to use raw material imported from...
SK Pora- The Myth Of A Model Village
Other than a Common Facility Centre, a Rural Information Centre and a sewage network, the government has failed to develop the facilities mandated under...
The Damhal Aberration
Damhal is the only village in Kashmir region where the developmental projects mandated to be undertaken under Model Village project of the government has...
The Invisible ‘Model Viallge Ratinpora’
A barren Information Centre, a hastily constructed community hall and a fenced graveyard is all that stands in “Model Village Ratnipora,” SHAMS IRFAN reports.
In...
The absent ‘Model Village Kilam’
Ten years after Kilam was taken up by the state government to change the economic and societal landscape of the village, many facilities mandated...
THE MODEL VILLAGE FARCE
The much- vaunted Model Village project was touted to transform villages in Kashmir into modern, self-sufficient entities. Kashmir Life visited five ‘model’ villages described...
J&K’s Yatra Network
Highly successful yatra to Vaishno Devi shrine and the controversial trek to Amarnath cave are not the only two ‘faith’ routes in J&K. Many...
A Road To The Cave?
As the Supreme Court is seeking improved and dignified basic facilities for the summer Hindu pilgrimage to Amarnath without compromising the fragile near-glaciated ecology,...
FIVE FAILURES
As the arrival of more than a million tourists to Kashmir this year created a record of sorts, Kashmir Life examines the major failures...
The Orphanage Business
Kashmir orphans are a dispossessed lot. Some of them are slowly falling prey to a stressful life spent behind the closed walls of ramshackled...
The Shrine Contribution
A small shrine nested in Kashmir’s Pir Panchal Mountains in Shahadra Sharief funded a huge university in Rajouri’s backyard. The Ghulam Shah Badshah University...
