Diabetes: An Underestimated, Misunderstood Disorder
As Kashmir is struggling with an increasing number of diabetic patients, Scholar Zeenat Farooq writes about the reasons, symptoms and measures to be taken...
Stress: Operation, Management & Our Responsibility
Twenty five years of conflict has cost Kashmir at many levels. Of late, stress is a major concern in Valley. Scholar Zeenat Farooq discusses...
Curiosity Pays
It was his curiosity to understand the complex nature of human body that made this Kashmiri boy to come up with a research which...
Abuse of Antibiotics?
A Biotechnology Scholar, Zeenat Farooq, cautions about the use of Antibiotics and writes that mass awareness is need of the hour for both the...
Dream On
Rejected by the ‘perfect world’ these kids have carved a perfect world of their own at Zaiba Appa. Saima Rashid spends one quiet afternoon...
Healing Hands
Pained by the rejection that specially-abled face in the society, a few noble souls joined together to start Shafaqat. To help them face the...
Technology Hurts!
Is IT revolution a bane or boon for mankind is a never ending debate. But with large number of youngsters finding solace in the...
“There is substantial number of lymphoma/leukemia patients in the valley”
Javeed Iqbal - Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and Microbiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), Omaha, Nebraska, USA -...
Gen(e)ocide
For strife-ridden Kashmir, surviving on stress, chicken and mutton and staying limited to hearths and homes, has emerged just a way of life. Slowly...
Combating Cancer
A US-based Kashmiri neuroscientist is lauded for his path-breaking discovery against cancer world over. He tells Shakir Mir that a cancer-free Kashmir is his...
An Addict’s Story
He started smoking for fun but once he landed in a college in Delhi things turned ugly. With drugs like cocaine and cannabis easily...
Exiled In Past
The banks of Srinagar’s Nigeen Lake are host to Kashmir’s three generations of leprosy patients. They live, grow, marry and die inside the four...
Forgotten Hakeems
Nestled in old lanes of Srinagar, Hakeems are struggling to survive in face of modernity. Syed Asma talks to some of the surviving practitioners...
Healthy Beginning
It was a childhood dream that made this south Kashmir boy pursue medicine and then start a hospital of his own. Suhail A Shah...
Critically Missing
With Kashmir’s highways sans emergency services one has to travel around 70 kilometres to avail critical care in case of an accident. Suhail A...
