Kashmir’s Extravagant Weddings
Kashmir is witnessing an unsettling shift towards extravagant and ostentatious weddings reducing once-simple ceremonies to history books. Dictated by unreal soap shows on the...
Electing A Rubber Stamp?
As the Ministry of Home Affairs reiterated the provisions outlined in Jammu and Kashmir's post-2019 reorganisation, the political class expressed their anger and frustration...
Kashmir: A Thirsty Village
Four members of a 9-member family in a north Kashmir village died in a road accident while they were driving with 1200 litres of...
A Veteran’s Kashmir Ventures
An Australian teacher gave up his profession and started trekking into the Himalayas till he fell for Kashmir. These off-track treks led him to...
How al-Fatah Was Dismantled?
Before retiring from service during the tumultuous 1990s, IPS officer Ali M Watali played a pivotal role in supervising the arrest of numerous militants...
Medieval Kashmir: Texts and Contexts
Medieval Kashmir witnessed massive shifts in the region’s faith, politics and economy. Credit goes to historian Prof Mohibbul Hasan for offering Kashmir a book...
Sacrificed Eid Market
On the eve of Eid 2024, Syed Shadab Ali Gillani and Babra Wani visited the key Srinagar markets and found them deserted. While the...
Kashmir’s First Gentlemen Contest
Given the power, an elected enjoys, the elections across the world are a cut-throat race that involves everything from mudslinging to scandalising people. For...
Omar, Mehbooba: United In Loss
The just concluded Lok Sabha saw two former Chief Ministers losing an election for the first time. Babra Wani attempts an explanation
“I think it’s...
The Rasheed Rise
Even before his arrest in 2019 in a money laundering case, Engineer Rasheed, the two-time lawmaker from Langate, was gaining a lot of acceptability...
Kashmir’s Fragmented Mandate
The improved turnout in the Lok Sabha elections retained the mandate’s regional divide on Kashmir-Jammu lines, a trend not new to the region’s politics....
Kashmir: Politics, Politicians, People
In the just concluded Lok Sabha elections, Syed Shadab Ali Gillani was supposed to meet the politicians who were in the contest and accompany...
Mehbooba’s Litmus Test
A bad governor but a street fighter, Mehbooba Mufti fought odds to build the PDP as an alternative political platform, now, a tattered party...
Mian Altaf’s Spiritual Stakes
A reluctant contestant, JKNC’s Mian Altaf Ahmad holds the dual status of being a politician and a spiritual leader of the Gujjars. In the...
A Cliffhanger Contest
In North Kashmir, 22 candidates are vying for 1.7 million votes and the contest is between Omar Abdullah and Sajad Lone. But the two...
