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...
Kashmir: Global Warming
by Jalal Ud Din Baba
Since decade’s human kind on the planet earth has pursued unending war with Mother Nature, in particular with earth and...
Food Festival: Now, Medicinal Herbs to Fetch Jobs to Valley Youth!
Shakir Mir
KL NEWS NETWORK
SRINAGAR
This Sunday, food-lovers in Srinagar took an unusual detour from their regular food habits and swarmed to relish some vintage Kashmiri...
Regal Gallery
After putting in more than three decades working in faraway offshore destinations, the Naqshabandi couple has launched the first privately owned art gallery. They...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Paying obeisance,not heed
SAMEER YASIR treks up to the Amarnath cave shrine via Baltal in Sonmarg. He is appalled by the amount of pollution the annual pilgrimage...
‘Western Disturbances Run Riot with Kashmir’
Predicting a serious crisis in the near future, VC IUST, Prof Shakil Ahmad Romshoo, an earth scientist, tells Humaira Nabi that a huge surge...
Tasteless Anchar
Once famous for its fish, Nadru, and vegetable gardens, Anchar Lake struggles to survive encroachment, waste dump, and official neglect. Syed Asma reports
Son of...
‘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...
A Flailing Society
A civilized society is born out of care for the environment, a sense of duty and belongingness to the places we live in. Kashmir’s...
Waltengu Nar
Waltengu Nar, a Gujjar village down south completed 17 years of its destruction by a snowstorm on February 19. Almost two-thirds of the village...
Reliving Waltengo
Flattened by snow storm a decade ago, Waltengo Nar in South Kashmir’s Qazigund area is completely a different place now. The change has redefined...
