A Pattern Persists
Chatroo is not an isolated horror. It is the latest in a chain. Kashmir must ask why these crimes keep repeating.
A child died in...
Silence Costs Fertility
Kashmir's fertility crisis demands a coordinated policy response: awareness campaigns, subsidised fertility care, workplace reform, and early screening integrated into routine healthcare delivery.
Jammu and...
Ensure Community Ownership
Kashmir's drug crackdown shows impressive numbers, but lasting change demands community ownership and supply-chain reform.
The Narcotics Control Roadmap 2026-29 marks a serious escalation in...
Kashmir’s Statistical Amnesia
Seven years after Jammu and Kashmir's bifurcation broke its data series, a new government strategy promises real-time governance while leaving the old fracture unrepaired.
When...
Kashmir’s Vanishing Margins
Melting glaciers, vanishing lakes, and recurring cloudbursts reveal Kashmir's fragile ecology buckling under mounting pressure.
The shrinking ice Shivling at Amarnath, reduced from roughly seven...
Jammu Kashmir Statehood
Kashmir's civil society has endorsed the National Conference's demand for the restoration of full statehood soon.
Jammu and Kashmir continues to live under an unusual...
Fix the Card
Fix the Card
Kashmir's Golden Card scheme is a vital safety net crippled by paltry packages and quiet exclusions. It needs reform, not retreat.
The Ayushman...
Waste into Wealth
Jammu and Kashmir's Circular Economy Policy is ambitious and timely, but success depends entirely on implementation, accountability and institutional coordination.
Jammu and Kashmir has finally...
Peace without Resolution
Ceasefire brings relief, but unresolved Palestinian and regional disputes continue to threaten stability.
The reported end of the latest round of conflict in the Middle...
Stones of Consequence
Kashmir's rocks hold records that belong not to one region or nation but to the entire human story, and that story is being erased
There...
Celebration before Reckoning
The 8th Pay Commission offers Jammu & Kashmir's workforce a long-overdue relief, but the territory's precarious fiscal arithmetic demands that Omar Abdullah's government look...
Kashmir’s Fraying Social Fabric
Disturbing crimes involving minors are forcing Kashmir to confront uncomfortable questions about morality and social change.
The recent rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl...
Tracking Kashmir’s Cancer
Jammu and Kashmir’s decision to notify cancer cases marks a crucial step toward early detection, improved surveillance, better treatment planning and stronger public health...
Not Raids Alone
Cracking down on drug networks is necessary but not sufficient. Kashmir needs jobs, counselling and severed supply chains to win this war.
The numbers from...
Collective Economic Discipline
Instability in West Asia demands voluntary austerity, prudent consumption, and collective economic responsibility to safeguard India’s resilience.
The unresolved crisis in West Asia is no...
