Reclaiming Khushal Sar
The government avoided any commitment that it will restore the freshwater lake. Eventually, a social activist threw his hat in the ring, handheld the...
Plant Collectors In Kashmir
While studying Botany, students hardly spare a thought about the processes and the people who gave their lives to identify and name the plants...
‘Rethink Power Projects On Unstable Slopes’
Dr Irfan Rashid, a Senior Assistant Professor at the University of Kashmir’s Department of Geoinformatics has the distinction of being the first INSA (Indian...
Jammed January
As mercury dropped to a record low consistently, Kashmir faced the harshest winter in thirty years. With cascading effect on every sphere of life, Saima...
History’s Major Snowfall
Every time there is a snowfall, the media chases the weatherman asking about the dates when it snowed more last time. Even elders are...
New Bird Flu
With people desperate for a vaccine to manage the Covid-19, a pandemic that has killed two million people worldwide, the new bird flu has...
Snow In January
Science and tradition suggest that early winter snowfall is good for Kashmir ecology but the fragile service delivery systems sent people crying, reports Yawar...
Understanding Karnah
In news for the cross border shelling, more than seventy thousand people live in Karnah, which has historically remained a gateway to Sharda, Mahmood Ahmad writes
Sandwiched...
Law of The Jungle
Demolition of numerous “illegal” seasonal hutments of the nomadic tribes across Kashmir and Jammu by the authorities has triggered an outcry in Kashmir and...
A 100-Lake Record
Pushed into nature by the melancholic hypnosis at Tosamaidan, Mahmood Ahmad spent 15 years trekking and hiking to document Kashmir’s 100 high altitude lakes, rare feat...
Showcasing An Extinction
The fossil abundant Kashmir has a vast potential of becoming the subject matter of global understanding of the last recorded mass extinction of species....
Work In Progress
A chain of conservation schemes were launched to revive Dal Lake’s lost glory. Equipped with the latest contraption and expert advice from professionals, the...
Snow Bites
As Kashmir was heading towards completing 100 days under restrictions and lockdown, an early snowfall pushed the Valley into yet another crisis at huge...
Spewing Black
Quick cash was the key factor for hundreds of farmers in Budgam to lease their lands to brick kiln owners. Decades later, they have...
‘Ice Stupas Were Copied In Switzerland, Skardu, Peru and Sikkim’
People who watched Amir Khan’s Three Idiots might not have forgotten the character named Phunsukh Wangdu. He is a living legend of Ladakh who...
