Eid in a Quiet Market
Kashmir’s Festival Mood Mirrors Economic Realities
Across the world, festivals are economic high points. Whether it’s Christmas in the West, Lunar New Year in East...
Kashmir’s Drowning, A Preventable Loss
Kashmir can save lives if swimming is promoted as a basic life activity
Every summer, Kashmir loses a heartbreaking number of young lives to...
One Exam, Many Dreams
Rethinking Jammu Kashmir’s Burdened Path to Higher Education
The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 was envisioned as a revolutionary shift in the way India educates...
Golf Monopoly Ends
Over the years, Jammu and Kashmir has invested huge money in a network of golf, a luxury sport, but the number of players is...
Umeed Matters
There are quite a few state-sponsored schemes that have triggered sort of a change at ground zero. One of them is the National Rural...
Guardian Secretaries
Jammu and Kashmir has changed a lot in terms of population and the government in the last seven decades. At one point of time,...
Back To Village
Last month, a record number of officers up to the Principal Secretary level were out in the Kashmir periphery to listen to the people...
Yatra And Hospitality
At a time when the occupancy in Kashmir hotels is below one-fourth, the start of the yearly Amarnath yatra could have been a game...
Revisiting The Village
Though more than 70 per cent of the gazetted cadre in Jammu and Kashmir’s administration is from a rural background and aware of the...
Revival Needed
Markets are showing the same morbidity that was seen after the 2014 floods. There were serious efforts to revive but the 2016 unrest came...
Whither Assembly Elections
The elaborate exercise of holding Lok Sabha elections is now nearing to closure in India. By May 23, everybody will know who will lead...
Ramzan Responsibilities
What has been usually seen in Kashmir during the Muslim month of fasting is that the governance structure gets into action weeks ahead of...
Denied Basics
In a tragic incident, a pregnant lady was denied ambulance by Primary Health Centre, Kalaroos in frontier Kupwara district, which led to her delivering...
Exhibit Restraint
The electioneering has remained a comparatively peaceful affair since 2014. There were not many attacks on the people contesting polls, during the process. It...
Stop state squeeze
Journalists have been under threat for long.
Getting hauled up by the police is routine. Getting beaten up by the security forces is usual. Getting...
