Driving A Fortune
What began as a teenage obsession with driving has grown into a full-scale transport enterprise. From Rajwar, Aijaz Wadder now commands a fleet of...
Kashmir’s Road Repairers
Three Budgam youths quietly repair Kashmir’s deadly potholes, reducing accidents through volunteer effort amid neglect, reports Shoaib Nazir
Some of Kashmir's roads are so pothole-ridden...
Purposeful Grief
After losing a friend to overdose, four Srinagar youths anonymously rescue addicts through counselling, early intervention, rehabilitation, dignity, and community responsibility, reports Afreen Ashraf
"When...
Kashmir’s Chenab Guardians
For almost twenty years, an uncle-nephew duo have plunged into the frigid waters of the Chenab, retrieving the drowned and rescuing the living, without...
Banihal’s Roadkeeper
In the shadow of lofty peaks and ever-shifting terrains, the anxiety of travelling through scary stretches of NH-44 remains despite different interventions. With the...
Rescuing the Forgotten
A group of Kashmir youngsters are pioneering a new era of compassion and social responsibility by locating and taking care of the people abandoned...
A Friend In Deed
Down south in Waltengu Nar, Khalid Bashir Gura met a wheelchair-bound shopkeeper whose life moved from one tragedy to another. Without giving up, he...
The Bridging Couple
For almost five decades a couple has been rowing a boat to keep two Kashmir villages, lacking a bridge, stay connected. They worked on...
Working With Shadows
Suhail generates interesting art on glass and exposure to light gives it life. Ishtiyak Margray meet an artist who works as a carpenter in the day...
Remarkable Siblings
Born blind in a remote south Kashmir village, it was the mother who ensured that her children must study. Now, PhD scholars, the youngest...
Model Coach
In Ganderbal, a football coach funds an academy from his pocket to locate and train the new generation of sportspersons reports Ishtiyak Magray
Talent alone...
An Exceptional Trader
Abdul Hameed Wani, who owns and runs Kashmir’s only private apple mandi deep in south Kashmir is a self-made businessman, whose trade is dictated...
New Poet, New Language
An unlettered woman in north Kashmir has been a poet for more than 30 years. What distinguishes her from the tribe is that she...
Not A Mute Crusader
Driven by the crisis he faced at home, Kamal Wani understood the critical deficit in society and brought in like-minded to launch a joint...
A Model Library
MA young under-grad sets up a library out of his own pocket money to manage the book deficit for students in the north Kashmir...
