Kashmir’s Two Johnsons
Two Europeans named Johnson worked in Kashmir, one as a surveyor, the other as an engineer. Historian MJ Aslam separates fact from folklore surrounding...
Kashmir’s Shamla
Shamla Mufti topped every examination she sat, and her in-laws felt embarrassed as her success became news. From Zaldagar girlhood in Srinagar to a...
Kashmir: Tulail Class Tales
Students in Tulail travel up to 35 kilometres daily for college, facing costly transport, unfinished hostels, absent teachers and no medical facilities, reports Babra...
Kashmir: Stein’s Stalled Legacy
A completed museum honouring archaeologist Sir Aurel Stein at Mohand Marg remains non-functional three years on, despite the expenditure of Rs 1.36 crore, Idrees...
Authoritarian Parenting
Parenting influences children's development; extreme control may harm mental health balance and understanding, fostering growth. Batool Andrabi writes about ‘toxic parenting’ in Kashmir
Parenting styles...
Kashmir: Constrained Curriculum
A government-mandated textbook monopoly has lowered costs but triggered concerns over academic quality, editorial standards and learning outcomes, forcing many families to rely on...
Kashmir: The Royal Witness
In a rare and unhurried conversation, Dr Karan Singh, the only Sadr-e-Riyasat of Jammu and Kashmir, reflects on the making of the State, the...
‘Kashmir May Have Been Humanity’s First Home in South Asia’
In Kashmir Life’s History Talks, archaeologist Dr Abdul Rashid Lone traces Kashmir's history from Palaeolithic lake beds through Neolithic settlements to Kushana-era trade, art,...
Kashmir: Persians’ Silent Exit
Persian once ruled Kashmir's courts and literature for centuries, but today it survives only as a nearly forgotten academic formality, reports Umar Mukhtar
For centuries,...
‘World History is Buried in Kashmir’
Prominent geologist Prof GM Bhat tells Masood Hussain that Kashmir's rocks hold the world's most complete record of Earth's greatest extinction, that humans walked...
Delhi’s Kashmir Teacher
A Kashmiri scholar trained the men who built India's most influential seminary, shaped its 1857 uprising, and defined its Islamic intellectual tradition, but history...
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...
