Places

What lies beneath is the question that has baffled archeologists for long. Perhaps the answer lies in discoveries made on and off. But an...

Born out of adversity Shimla became second home for Kashmiris fleeing Maharaja’s Begaar system, the very notorious forced labour. Even though Hari Singh fled...

Lolab, literally the waters of love, is one of the most beautiful places in Kashmir inhabited by beautiful, hardworking people mired in tradition and...

Sitting atop Koh-i-Maran hill a 200 year old military fort is witness to Kashmir’s changing political fortunes. Safwat Zargar takes a walk around the...

With more than 20 kanals of agriculture land per household Qazigund village in Pulwama district was proud to be self-sufficient till floods washed away...

The official blame game after recent floods has once again brought this godforsaken village called Kandizal into focus. But is Kandizal really worth all...

Live fuses, shells and landmines scattered in villages around Khundroo Ammunition Depot are haunting a population, who are losing lives and limbs to stray...

Far away from Srinagar is a little Kashmir in Kishtwar shrouded in clouds between Kashmir and Jammu. Administratively part of Jammu, Wadwan is accessible...

Syed Shujaat Bukhari
In Pakistan Administered Kashmir (PaK), one comes across a strange emotional bonding the people have with our part of Jammu and Kashmir. Generally referred to as “Occupied Kashmir” (Maqbooza Kashmir), they are in love with its beauty to an unimaginable limit. A few years back, I was in Central Asia.

With a history of floods dating back to half a century villagers in Khadermoh hoped that water will not get beyond their plinth levels....

As the Covid-19 dictated lockdown protracted from one week to another, restive youngsters moved out to explore the Kashmir they had not heard or...

By a strange confluence, this village in Baramulla has over decades given Kashmir hundreds of its linemen responsible for maintaining electricity supply lines in...

In news for the cross border shelling, more than seventy thousand people live in Karnah, which has historically remained a gateway to Sharda, Mahmood Ahmad writes Sandwiched...

The largest telescope on earth is going to be installed in Ladakh, which will be used to study cosmic gamma ray sources, Tasavur Mushtaq...