Kashmir: The First Count
As the families across the Jammu and Kashmir area await an enumerator’s doorbell to get counted for the Census 2027, Masood Hussain narrates the...
Kashmir’s Drifting Generation
Kashmir's students face a widening gap between personal ambition and systemic pressure, reports Lilac Ali
Sayim walked into university with unshakable clarity of purpose. He...
Kashmir: A Fisherman’s Tale
At the peak of mutiny in 1857, when Maharaja Gulab Singh’s death turned fish into forbidden fruit, Srinagar paid a savage price for the...
The Hajj That Was
From medieval sultans to wandering mystics, Kashmir's long relationship with the Hajj made it both a way-station for Makkah-bound Central Asian pilgrims and a...
Kashmir’s First Pilgrim
Abd al-Karīm ibn Khwāja ʿĀqibat Maḥmūd al-Kashmīrī was waiting in Delhi for a visa to Makkah when Nadir Shah's invasion of 1739 swept him...
Kashmir Gen Next: Noise over Direction
A generation armed with more information than ever still finds itself adrift, not from indifference, but from the weight of everything at once, writes...
Kashmir: Dreams on Hold
When India's most competitive medical entrance exam collapses for the first time in history, Kashmir's students, already navigating a maze of reservations, competing exams,...
Banihal To Bonn, A Kashmir Scientist’s Story
A boy from a landless shepherd community in a Banihal mountain village, where only four of 53 classmates passed Class 10, is now reshaping...
Kashmir and Bangladesh: Binding Threads
Kashmir and Bangladesh sit at opposite ends of the Himalayan arc, yet their ties run deep and old. Medical students, apple traders, accidental models,...
Loran: Kashmir’s Forgotten Gateway
A Poonch village that breathes Kashmiri culture carries within its ruins a fort that once stopped a world-conquering empire, reports Syed Shadab Ali Gillani,...
Kashmiris at Sea
From the still shikara waters of Dal Lake to the high-stakes Strait of Hormuz, a quiet generation of Kashmiri men is navigating some of...
Kashmir’s ‘Abandoned’ Students
From a Rajasthan jail cell to the bombed cities of Iran, Kashmiri students are paying the price of a valley that has never invested...
Kashmir’s Persian Past
The war in Iran has thrown Kashmiri students studying there into uncertainty, reopening a larger story of Kashmir’s deep historical connections with Persia through...
Jamia Zia Ul Uloom Poonch: 50 Years Later
Jamia Zia-ul-Uloom in Poonch marked its 50-year journey, celebrating its founding vision, expanding its educational mission, and reaffirming enduring communal harmony, as reflected in...
SMVDIME: A Silent Shut Down
Almost three months after the right-wing parties launched protests against the enrollment of Muslim students at the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical...
