Cold Homes
As Kashmir gave up its traditional architecture paving way for fashionable concrete and glasshouses, the people feel the home warmth lost, reports Umar Mukhtar
Ghulam...
Rediscovering The Neighbour
As the contagion finally started its spread to the Kashmir periphery, the affected population has started reviving and re-understanding the traditional support structure within...
Surging Falahudarain
For the last two decades, north Kashmir charity, Falahudarain is working for the uplift of society through education and research, reports Aqib Nazir
Around1400 years...
Deaths By Drowning
Around 35 people, most of them minors, have drowned while bathing in streams and ponds to beat the scorching sun. This has triggered calls...
Tanga Passengers
In the twenty-first century when faster transportation is abundant, a section of the population still prefer the slow motion, eco-friendly Tanga and those running...
Warming Up Winter
As the temperature plummets across Kashmir, various individuals and social groups are helping the poor brave the bitter cold, reports Saima Bhat
On a spine-chilling...
Love @ LoC
With a cute mute Pakistani-Kashmir girl lost at Wagha border, actor Salman Khan created a highly emotional masala movie that happily ends at the...
Rumour Republic
The Flood of kids-carrying parents jamming roads and hospitals last week was just a historic instance of what a rumour can do to Kashmir...
Bypassing Livelihoods
As the people have started enjoying the ‘long drive’ on Kashmir’s first motorway, the alternative highway, saving time and fuel, thousands of businesses are...
Marriage: Late is not better
Average age for marriages in Kashmir has risen from 20’s to 30’s with emphasis on economic stability and extravagant weddings. The rise in marrying...
Managing Hunger
Lockdown is witnessing outpourings of generosity in Kashmir towards poor and needy. Many NGOs, civil society groups are helping feed families during the Coronavirus...
Kashmir’s Grave World
Death doesn’t mean an end. There is an elaborate system of social stratification involving the burials that is an economy in itself. But space...
Years Of Solitude
As the newer generations of Kashmiris get increasingly preoccupied with their lives and careers, a section of society is being left behind. Saima Bhat...
Inalienable ingredient
Wazwaan is an integral part of the marriages in Kashmir, even the weddings are scheduled as per the availability of waza (chefs), Abdul Mohamin...
Sarore Sorrow
The morning police raid on Gujjar hutments in Samba is not an isolated incident. Syed Asma talks to the community living under the fear...