Breeding An Epidemic
The hospitals in a Kashmir are ill-equipped to handle the waste, especially bio-medical and radioactive, putting lives and the environment at risk. Ikhlaq Qadri...
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...
A Lake Exploration
A cultural anthropologist gives time to Kashmir’s famed Dal Lake and generates an impressive piece of literature, writes Insha Shirazi
Michael J Casimir's The Cultural...
Explaining Traeth
When the deadly dark clouds burst into bangs, these actually are big bangs for some people because they have to recreate their lives later,...
Carbon Costs
Hunting new tools to fight the winter chill might be a major challenge for Kashmir given the costs its traditional systems extract from its...
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....
The dying Chinar
By: Mir Liyakat Nazir
Jis khak ke zamir main ho aatishe Chinar
Mumkin nahin ki sard ho wo khaakee arjumand…
(The dust that has in its conscience...
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...
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...
Budshah’s Nallai Mar
For ages, rulers in Kashmir have constructed canals to improve life and production. But there is no ruler who could come even closer to...
‘Royal’ Sale
A Mughal era garden in Dal Lake’s lap is latest causality of land mafia. Sold by the Maharaja to a wealthy local, the garden...
Unplumbed Treasure
Having studied springs in Kashmir for over a decade, a researcher at University of Kashmir has found that not only are all the trace...
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...
Stinking Beauty
Famous health resort Gulmarg which is known for its vast meadows and wild flower beds is facing existential threat as tonnes of waste generated...
A Carry Bag
The devastation to Kashmir’s fragile eco-system can reduce hugely if there is an alternative to the abundant plastic carry-bag, reports Insha Shirazi
People hawking Kashmir...
