Growing With Grannies
As more and more women prefer white collar jobs to stay liquid and contribute to the family wellbeing, a new generation is growing either...
Kashmir’s Organ Donors
When a Sikh girl from Udhampur heard her Muslim friend from Rajouri, admitted in SKIMS, requires a kidney, she took moments to offer one....
Enforced Break-Ups
The conflict continues breaking families and adding to the destitute population. Muhammad Younis meets three widows and their children who lost their main support...
In Conflict Theatre
South Kashmir is boiling since 2016. It tops the lists of gun-battles that took place in 2018. The frequent encounters and a mounted vigil...
Women Prisoners
The days when visiting a police station was anathema for women in Kashmir are over. Now two of the jails in Kashmir have women...
10 Funerals, One Wedding
The consistent gloom and pain in the valley are devouring the petty patches of joy and happiness on daily basis. Shams Irfan details his...
Love Is Not Blind
Think of a life that is without a pair of eyes. And then read Saima Bhat’s report about a boy, the elder of the...
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...
