America’s Kashmiri Milk Scientist
From a Kashmiri village, Dr Shakeel-ur-Rehman travelled to Gujarat, Ireland and then to a leading American university. When Texas cattle farmers sought his help...
Careers After 12th: 5 Top Career Choices for Students Passionate About Chemistry
by Dr Nisar Farhad
Chemistry students after 12th can pursue rewarding careers in pharmaceuticals, chemical engineering, environmental science, food technology, and research, combining scientific curiosity...
1860: A Kashmir Memoir
A Summer Ramble in the Himalayas blends travel, ethnography, and empire, depicting the Himalayas through beauty and domination. It reveals colonial attitudes toward nature,...
Kashmir: Shifting Learning Landscapes
Parents in Kashmir are increasingly turning to private schools, citing better outcomes and opportunities, even as policymakers face criticism for neglecting systemic reforms and...
Lhasa’s Kashmiri Spy
In 1830, Lhasa, a Kashmiri trader’s battered notebooks became evidence of a clandestine war waged not with muskets but with ink and inkpots, mapping...
Khalida Shah: Witness to Power Struggle
In the shadow of Kashmir’s turbulent past, the eldest child of Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah, Begum Khalida Shah, recalls a life shaped by political upheaval,...
The Nedous Legacy
Once a colonial-era jewel and linked to Kashmir’s first political family, the iconic Nedous Hotel in Gulmarg now stands shut, caught in a fierce...
Kashmir: A School Report
Jammu and Kashmir’s education overhaul reveals mixed results. While funding has increased and infrastructure has improved, learning outcomes remain uneven. Key schemes lag, and...
Kashmir’s Papermaking Past
Kashmir’s centuries-old tradition of handmade paper, once renowned across empires, has now completely vanished. No tools, workshops, or artisans remain; only fading memories and...
Goda Gali: Kashmir’s Lost Hun Riders
Believed by local legend to date back to the era of the Pandavas from the Mahabharata, the mysterious stone horsemen of Gool in Ramban...
Kashmir: The Embedded Memories
Masood Hussain’s account of living with a splinter wound in Kashmir becomes a lens to explore how violence embeds itself physically in people’s lives,...
Kashmir: The MBBS Flights
Hamstrung by limited seats across Jammu and Kashmir’s 13 medical colleges and burdened by a skewed reservation policy, nearly 1,500 aspirants migrate abroad each...
Jammu Dalits
Dalits in Jammu and Kashmir, long relegated to the margins, have waged a decades-long struggle against caste oppression, demanding dignity, representation, and justice from...
Fungus: A Silent Threat to Crops and Human Life
by Vijay Garg
Fusarium graminearum, a toxic crop fungus, threatens global food security and human health, with cases in India and the US, prompting urgent...
Kashmir: Gene-Editing A Life
A little over 13 years after the birth of Noori, India’s first cloned Pashmina goat, cloning pioneer Dr Riyaz A Shah has once again...
