Hatching Success
From a daily wager extracting sand to a successful entrepreneur who yearns to complete his studies, Farooq Ahmad Shah’s journey is inspiring. Safwat Zargar...
Village Educator
Orphaned at a time when he needed the support of his father, Showkat Allaie fought odds to complete his education. Finally, he decided to...
A Butterfly’s Journey
Had teenager Hina Nazir Sheikh known the costs of chasing her dream of opening a beauty parlour in trouble torn Kashmir, she might have...
Chiseling Stones
It was near madness when Ubaid Mehraj decided to chase his dreams of turning raw stones into tiles instead of reaping benefits of his...
Inhospitable, No More
Gone are the days when Dak Bungalow was the only address for travellers in Kargil. Over the years, hospitality sector is booming and the...
Fashion Passion
Daughter of an insurer, Taj Preet Kaur was so in love with designing that her family gave her full support. The passion to pursue...
Eggless Address
A year after graduating, she married in a housewife-seeking baker family. As the pressure mounted to create resources to fund better education for her...
De’ Kanis Kreations
Fascination for sketches, drawings and designs since childhood took an army official’s daughter from Leh to National Institute of Fashion Technology for formal training...
Unconventional Investment
Shocked over his colleagues inviting him to play cricket in sub zero London suburb, Arjun Choudhary returned Jammu to create the state of the...
Kashmir Nikah: A Matchless Match
With technology taking over almost every sphere of our lives, finding a perfect match is now just a click away in Kashmir. Saima Bhat...
From Bang to Boom
After overcoming the parental hurdles, a young man driven by community sense started working to put Leh on tourism map. Fifteen years after, both...
Rolls on Roads
A management student’s search for an authentic burger led to opening of Kashmir’s first street food chain. Safwat Zargar meets the budding entrepreneur who...
Lifting Homes
What will you do if your house sinks in? Is it possible to lift it up? Inspired by a television series young entrepreneur starts...
Re-discovering Heritage
A young entrepreneur’s experiment with the traditional art of adoring ceilings with Khatamband made him explore polystyrene instead of wood. Riyaz Ul Khaliq reports
Yasser...
Poultry Farmers in ‘distress’
Tasavur Mushtaq
SRINAGAR
Tariq Ahmad, 27, is cursing the day when he opted to be an entrepreneur and establish poultry farm in central Kashmir’s Budgam district....
