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...
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...
