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Society

Richest repository of the trends, practices, numbers and the way of life of people inhabiting Jammu and Kashmir

Kashmir’s Hidden HIV Burden

For young Kashmiris who inject drugs and live with HIV, two stigmas collide, and the shame decides whether they ever reach a hospital, reports Syed...

Kashmir: Fish For Mutton

As a mutton trade standoff threatens supplies ahead of the wedding season, Kashmir's traditional staple, fish, could be staging a comeback, reports Babra Wani For...

Kashmir: Mauled Twice

As wild animal attacks surge across Jammu and Kashmir, 278 deaths and thousands of injuries over two decades, survivors face not just trauma but...

Kashmir: Beyond The Conclave

While Srinagar's conclave debated dignified return, government data now shows most transit flats built for Kashmir's Pandit employees are still empty, reports Babra Wani Thirty-six...

Kashmir: A Table for All

In a small Kashmiri town, an ancient tradition of communal dining dissolves barriers of sect, class and creed, reports Afreen Ashraf Zehra moves slowly through...

VMS: Dignity in Motion

The Voluntary Medicare Society has evolved into Kashmir’s premier rehabilitation centre for persons with severe disabilities, built on the vision and commitment of a...

Waiting by the Water

As drowning deaths continue to claim young lives across Kashmir, questions grow louder about whose responsibility it is to make the water's edge safer,...

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...
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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...