Kashmir: Sibling Sacrifices
Across Kashmir and Jammu, rivers have tested a truth older than any proverb: that when one brother drowns, the other does not stand on...
Kashmir: When Vows Shatter
Across Kashmir's villages and cities, broken marriages are leaving behind fractured lives, struggling children, and a community quietly reckoning with the rising tide of...
Loran: Kashmir’s Forgotten Gateway
A Poonch village that breathes Kashmiri culture carries within its ruins a fort that once stopped a world-conquering empire, reports Syed Shadab Ali Gillani,...
Kashmir: Wullar’s Dying Waters?
Asia's largest freshwater lake is shrinking, and so is the world of the thousands who depend on it, reports Asrar Syeed
Seven hours on the...
Hormuz to Hirpora: The War Impact
A distant conflict in the Strait of Hormuz is forcing Kashmir to unlearn a century of energy evolution. The kerosene lamp is coming back....
Kashmir’s Wooden Soul
Kashmir's architects and residents are fusing traditional building techniques with modern design to preserve a 3,000-year cultural heritage under threat from globalisation, reports Syed...
Kashmir: Trust, Butchered
In an investigative portrait of Qazigund's hollow slaughterhouse, Insha Yousuf reveals how backyard butchery, administrative failure, and blood-soaked drains are quietly devastating Kashmir's public...
Kashmir’s Unclaimed Generation
When Kashmir's child care institutions close their doors at eighteen, young residents are left without aftercare, skills, or safety nets, reports Afreen Ashraf
When Arfa...
Kashmir’s Clay Revival
In Srinagar, Kral Arts and Kralpora’s remaining potters spearhead a modest revival of Kashmir’s traditional earthenware, blending heritage, entrepreneurship and health-conscious appeal, reports Asrar...
Soibugh Shawls
Shawl artisans in Budgam preserve centuries-old craft amid financial struggles, health challenges, and competition from machine-made imitations, sustaining Kashmir’s Pashmina and wool heritage for...
Kashmir: The Seasonal Journeys
Each winter, thousands of Kashmiri men migrate across India for shawl selling, dry fruits, catering, and labour work, sustaining families amid limited local opportunities,...
Kashmir: The Pheran Fashion
The pheran, Kashmir’s centuries-old cloak of identity and survival, now travels across India as a fashion statement, comfortable, stylish, and admired, while its artisans...
Kashmir’s Smoke Free Village
Sheikhgund village in Kashmir’s down south transformed itself into a smoke-free community through collective action, local leadership and national recognition, showing how grassroots resolve...
Kashmir: Diagnostic Discomfort
Women in Kashmir face distress and delayed care due to scarce female diagnosticians, forcing uncomfortable scans, triggering trauma, avoidance behaviours, and exposing gaps in...
Kashmir: A Daughter’s Promise
The Ladli Beti scheme has transformed attitudes toward daughters in Jammu and Kashmir, offering financial security despite procedural hurdles. In districts suffering from a...
