Lineage of Dissent
A series of studies commissioned to understand various genetic disorders revealed stunning realities that genetically Kashmir gene pool is hugely closer to Turkish, Iranian...
Messy Education
With most of the money spent for the welfare of teachers the leftover hardly helps the cause of providing quality education to the underprivileged...
Nowhatta Nightmare
Every time Kashmir is on protest, areas surrounding the historic Jamia Masjid are under curfew. Once restrictions are over, tensions pile up making police...
The Shujaat, You Do Not Know
Kashmir lost Shujaat Bukhari, one of its most prominent journalists to a brutal attack virtually on the eve of Eid. Masood Hussain who had...
FAULTLINE LADAKH
For centuries, Muslims and Buddhists in Leh have shared ties of kinship and culture. That is history. Larger political goals are now splitting communities...
Lost Opportunities
With instability and turmoil frequenting Kashmir, more than 200 thousand students at the college and university level are facing a crippling crisis as their...
Deconstructing A Protest
It looks so simple to register a protest. When the protest drags on for a month, sustaining it becomes a festering resource and emotional...
Pandemic’s Emotional Toll
In Kashmir, Covid-19 hasn’t infected and killed people alone. It has broken families or pushed them into crises that are unlikely to settle. Saima...
Rape of an investigation
The only bit of evidence on Shopian "rapes and murders" has been lost as CFSL report says that the vaginal swabs of victims have...
CALLING INDIA INC: SHOULD WE?
Historically, non-local investors have been coming to state as fortune hunters. Now J&K government is again inviting them. KASHMIR LIFE examines if the investors, with no...
Survival Gadgets
As desperate families go to market, exorbitantly priced oxygen concentrators are making them unaffordable for Covid-19 patients homecare. Now the crisis is that leisure...
Malwan’s Braid Choppers
Mysterious hair cutting incidents started in central India early this year and literally followed the road to Kashmir. Restricted to restive South Kashmir, Kulgam...
Royal Nuts
For five weeks every fall, Sweet Chestnuts sell roasted on the Srinagar city streets at a cost not matched by any other fruit. Humaira...
Caught In Between?
Coinciding with the 50 days of lockdown, the Kashmir story migrated to America along with the Prime Ministers’ of India and Pakistan. Though the...
Cementing The Divide
As experts are flying to Srinagar with suggestions and ideas, the invisible LoC is expected to shed a shaky fence for a stronger, impregnable...
