Afghanistan On A Hill
Afghans have historically settled in Kashmir since the fall of Mughal Empire and even before. Umer Sofi visited a small Pashtun village that is...
Dignified Life Explained
When a crisis hits a family, especially its head, what happens? In most of the cases, the wives desert them and settle somewhere else....
The Other Side of Pain
Killings are painful and shattering for everybody regardless of the politics and profession. On the day of Eid, three cops were killed and two...
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...
Pledging Publicly
When 105 brides and grooms assembled in a city club for taking marriage vows under one roof in mid-July, it was Kashmir’s first mass...
Zaiba Aapa’s School
After unknown gunmen left a young science graduate to survive crippled, he felt the pain of the people with serious disabilities. A few years...
Model Self Help
A specially-abled man, fought odds to survive but struggled to create a difference for the people rendered imperfect by birth or the situation. Faheem...
Blurred Distinctions
Rulers for ages pitted a hungry peasant against a city dweller who paid double the cost to the autocrat for every grain of fleece...
Breaking Bonds
In good old days matchmakers used to be a key link between a would-be bride and a groom and their families. Now it’s a...
Gender Crisis
A month after the state government admitted the existence of trans-genders in J&K, the community that has survived torture and abuse for most of...
Inadmissible Infants
As Kashmir witnesses increased abandoning of newborn babies, the recent incidence of parents leaving ‘Baby Unknown’ at the mercy of dogs outside a Srinagar...
Shared Motherhood
When a couple that had stayed put at the peak of migration of Kashmiri Pandits, died between a year, the responsibility of taking care...
Middlemen Mafia
A dispassionate overview of Kashmir society clearly indicates, its every facet of life is in control of brokers, from faith to market and to...
When Nature Calls!
Kashmir may have a millennium long recorded history and might be the Paradise on Earth but the fact is that it is one of...
Ticking Bombs
At a time when everybody is carrying a broom for a photo-op, Umar Mukhtar visted two south Kashmir villages to understand the crippling crisis...
