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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
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Places

Understanding Karnah

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...

Dilli Dreams!

Shah Navid Ahmad After two years of hard work with no proper direction or guidance, I finally landed in Jamia Milia Islamia (JMI), Delhi. Thus...

Away from Kashmir

They grew up in the valley, they work in Delhi. They left Kashmir but Kashmir stayed with them. Majid Maqbool narrates some experiences Kashmiri...
Women folk in Chatosa village collecting water to wash clothes on a stream which flows through the village --Photo: Yaqoob Lala

Stuck In Time

Lack of regular electricity, proper roads, educational institutes and health centres is not a criterion for recognition as a backward area by the state...

Apple Cart to Panchal

The Mughal road may not be officially open yet, but it has already meant a huge deal to people in Kashmir valley, Poonch and...

Karakoram’s Newerland

Islamabad’s fresh dose of autonomy to the erstwhile Northern Areas have created a lot of heat and dust. R S Gull profiles the region’s history...

A Forgotten Kashmir

By Zamir Ahmad Last week after the separatists called for a 50-hour strike, I imagined the deserted streets, the patrolling soldiers, and the city under...
Dr Geer Mohammad Ishaq

In the Land of Mayans

DR GEER MOHAMMAD ISHAQ As they say, journeys help you discover your true inner self. My third visit abroad to Mexico to attend 12th annual...
Ladakhi students protesting for Zanskar

A Deceptive Calm

An eerie calm is slowly settling down in Zanskar where communal riots had broken out over the conversion of six Buddhist families to Islam....

Neglected Discoveries

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

Muzaffarabad

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.

Qazigund: A Village Lost

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...

BOGOR

Shazia KhanAfter our arrival at the Jakarta international airport in Indonesia, we headed to the city of Bogor.A relaxed, one and a half hour...

Guwahati

Khursheed WaniThere are many similarities between Kashmir and the north-east. Both hilly and border regions have inherited problems, economic as well as political, from...

Unseen Kashmir

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...