Model Enclave
Areas in and around Mattan in South Kashmir have emerged as the new confidence builders for migrant Kashmir Pandits to return home, reports Umar...
Divulging Details
Barely four months after the government justified undoing of Article 370 by asserting that Jammu and Kashmir’s backwardness was rooted in its special status,...
Match-Makers Mobile
With the drop gates preventing the movement on roads and cell phones blocked, the Kashmir lockdown hit the basic institution of life. Umar Khurshid...
Associated By Pain
When the society and the government looked down at them and, in certain cases, even families saw them as burden, fate got a couple...
Adopting The Abandoned
With the infertility rate crossing 15 percent, Kashmir is joining the societies where childless couples are always seeking kids to adopt. Saima Bhat investigates...
Double Jeopardy
A section of the specially-abled population was hugely relying on the smartphones and internet to stay in touch with their families. For the last...
The Sweat Money
Managers of the Rs 4300 crore Provident Fund of the workers in Jammu and Kashmir’s private and public sector were literally yearning for a...
The New Volunteers
Watching the farmers facing a crisis in paddy harvesting, groups of well educated youth started helping them volunatrilty and the trend has the potential...
Forced Migration?
Umar Mukhtar in Jammu found that tens of thousands of Kashmiris had already migrated in anticipation of the yearly durbar move
On September 24, maneuvering...
Losing Connections
A section of the society having the luxury of functional fixed-line phone tried making good money, reports Shams Irfan
A small worn-out bench inside a...
Revived Letters
After years of huge reliance on the modern tools of communications, Kashmir is gradually returning back to the age-old tradition of letter writing, reports...
Excommunication
Jammu and Kashmir is passing through history’s biggest communication blockade
A middle aged person, a businessman, had somehow managed to get admission for his son...
Weaver Dreams
Down south, a village has not abandoned handlooms because the power-looms work fast and better, but the weavers say they cannot change the destiny...
Women Fighters
In one of Kashmir’s impoverished belts, a central government scheme has revived the Umeed that if women, alongside men, will contribute by getting into...
Divorced By Pellets?
A young mother who went searching for her minor son at the peak of 2016 unrest was hit by a cartridge of pellets blinding...
