‘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...
Halt Hokersar
Though the project is in its final stage of implementation to reduce the de-siltation, the famous Hokersar wetland requires immediate attention in preventing the...
Beautiful Wasteland
As Kashmir invests heavily in infrastructure and promotion to improve the visitor footfalls to resurrect the ailing hospitality sector, Shams Irfan visits prime tourist...
Why Government Does Not Care About Its Own Environment Policy?
by Athar Parvaiz
After dithering over it for years, the Department of Forest, Ecology, and Environment uploaded the draft of State Environment Policy (SEP) 2018...
Wonder Spring?
A Facebook video showing a spring in a non-descript south Kashmir village following kid’s commands to make its water rise and fall sent hoards...
Vanishing Waters
Farmers are fast switching over to cash crops, abandoning traditional rice cultivation. But those who still grow the paddy lack the fundamental requirement –...
Taming The Jhelum
Barring public thinking and rooftop shouting on flood management, nothing much has happened to address the concerns of the Jhelum and the people living...
Plastic Millionaires
The ever-increasing consumption is massively throwing heaps of plastic, iron and paper packaging almost everywhere in urban and peripheral Kashmir. It is a huge...
A Clean Plan
A pilot project launched in Budgam with an aim to tackle household waste at source ended up achieving eighty percent segregation in three months....
Feel The Change
by Khursheed Wani
On January 18, a 24-year-old skier from Sweden Daniel Naat fell into a deep gorge in Gulmarg heights and died. When a...
Autumn Angling
With harvest over and the Lidder reporting low discharge, hundreds of youth report to the river and take tons of fish home, for most...
The Water Hunger
With modest rains and snow emerging a routine as glaciers disappear, Kashmir is already facing a serious groundwater crisis, reports Muhammad Younis
Making river water...
Aquatic Concertina
Protesting boys might be happy that they successfully pull the concertina barricades barring them from crossing the bridges and throw it into the river....
Apple Effect
As the Kashmir periphery is witnessing a literal mass conversion of rice fields into apple orchards, the changes manifesting itself by serious ecological tensions...
Into the Marsh
Hundreds of villagers in Dal lake took hard cash and moved out to live far away from the water body. But in Rakhi Aarath,...
