11 sq km of change
In this remote, election-bound hamlet on the LoC, an engineer turned actor is the face of a young, aspiring Kashmir. Peerzada Ashiq reports.Diesel jeans....
Now Funds Flowing
After making them organise into associations and resorting to protests, the government overnight turned proactive. As the administration is tasked to ensure all transfers...
Lost Faith
Ever since the conflict broke out in Kashmir valley, north Kashmir’s Palhalan village has been at the forefront of violence. Beneath a deceptive calm,...
18 Years, Waiting
A villager donated his piece of land for the construction of Panchayat Ghar when he was 30. He was promised a job. For all...
The Last Lot?
Jammu Kashmir history’s most financially empowered Panchayat, elected in a challenging situation in 2018 amid boycott and threats, is completing its term in early...
Suraya The Sarpanch
Nazir Ahmad RatherAfter getting elected from her village LalporaTangmarg as a Sarpanch, 28-year-old Suraya Rather is busy these days getting things done for her...
Grassroots Failure?
Panchayt elections were meant to be an international political statement as well as an exercise to experiment democracy at the grassroots level. Just a...
