The Kashmir Summers
by MJ Aslam
Reti' kol is Kashmir’s Mosum e Garma, the hottest season of the year. The summer, as such, is associated everywhere with dog...
Thajiwas: A 1945 Climbing Guide
Thajiwas With huge crowds of tourists messing over the foot of the Thajiwas glacier in Sonamarg, it creates tragedies and impacts the eco-fragile area....
Gandbal’s Grief
As a boat capsized in the middle of Jhelum, swollen by incessant rains for many days, drowning six, the tragedy exposed many narratives in...
Riverbed Devastation
Government officials avoid implementing rules till the vested interests resort to unfair means and destroy Kashmir’s water bodies. Dr Raja Muzaffar Bhat details how...
Kashmir’s Bird Chronicler
Living with birds that co-exist in the surroundings of a South Kashmir wetland made Parvaiz Yousuf curious about avian life in Kashmir. Now he...
Kashmir’s Winter Warmth
Spending days in the sunshine and freezing in bone-chilling Chillai Kalan nights, the desert weather has pushed Kashmir to the edge. A ‘bald’ Gulmarg...
Dal Lake: A Monograph
This document authored by Prof Dr MRD Kundangar in the early 1990s for the Hydrobiology Laboratory of the SP College, which he was heading,...
The Mughal Road Markhor
Like Hangul, Kashmir is the home to Markhor, a near-threatened species. Officially they exist in the protected areas at Hirpora (Shopian) and Kazinag. The...
Srinagar’s Shrinking Green Space
A tourist hub and home to nearly 2.5 million people, Srinagar is breathing pollution and lacks adequate green space to repair its lungs, Raashid...
Ravaged Rivers
The unchecked riverbed mining is ruining Kashmir’s rivers, impacting fish and agriculture but the government is yet to intervene to put brakes on it,...
Chatlam’s Identity Crisis
Despite being distinct from almost every other wetland across Kashmir, Chatlam is off the radar. Host population believes that it can emerge as a...
Introspecting The Deluge
As Kashmir was inches away from a flood in early July, the National Institute of Disaster Management came with its report about the debilitating...
Radiation Scare
As otherwise abundant bird species get rare in the cities, experts hold electromagnetic radiation responsible for the mess. The faster communication technologies will add...
Preserving Natural Heritage
With 60000 specimens, the 51-year-old Kashmir University Herbarium (KASH) is the only address for studying the diverse plant basket of Kashmir, Jammu and Ladakh....
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...
