Locked Down, Jobless
As the counter pandemic lockdown prolongs, thousands of people in unorganised and transporter, retail and services sectors are literally jobless. Left to fend for...
A Barber Deficit
As lockdown restricted people to their homes, hairy individuals are desperate to unburden their skulls. The added tensions are that the hair-styling sector has...
Nowhere To Go
Women depending on almsgiving by households to feed their families can’t visit them due to Covid-19 crisis. They desperately need help, reports Saima Bhat
Creased...
A Cancer Destitute
Destitution that comes as a result of disease to individuals otherwise performing well is very difficult to comprehend. Tasavur Mushtaq meets one such case...
Corona Weddings
The Covid-19 outbreak has destroyed the spring marriage season in Kashmir as families were forced to defer the ceremonies. A few, however, managed taking...
In Red Zone
After the initial shock at their area being sequestered for possibly being infested with Coronavirus, it is life as usual for the residents. But...
Safe Environs
Unlike Delhi and other metropolis, Kashmir didn't witness much of the exodus of the seasonal non-local workforce. This is perhaps because the host population...
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...
A Dream Painter
A Kashmiri family adopted an abandoned minor girl in Bangalore and brought her up for two decades. Now, restricted to a hospital bed for...
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...
