Desperately Dependent
For centuries Kashmir managed winters with traditions evolved by generations till the rundown Srinagar-Jammu road helped plain to find a market. Syed Asma reports...
Withered Tales
Vagaries of winters have substantially reduced over the decades. But the new tools have created an unreal world around the façade of the virtual...
Late Marriages: A Biological Disaster?
Marriage is a union of two souls. It should be done at proper time. However, Kashmir society - urban areas in particular - has...
Nurturing Roots
Despite living successful lives thousands of miles away, their hearts beat for the motherland. Syed Asma talks to a few philanthropist NRKs who are...
Dabla’s Kashmir
Unlike his counterparts, sociologist Bashir A Dabla (July 9, 1954 – September 2, 2015) was always preoccupied with his mission of understanding the trends...
Managing Hunger
Despite producing only a fraction of what we consume Kashmir conveniently wastes thousands of tonnes of food every day. Mohammad Raafi meets four cousins...
Bride Burners
The alarming trend in which families resort to kerosene and a match-stick instead of counselling, to manage conjugal discord, is worrisome. A society that...
Monster Inside
In a society obsessed with moral superiority, the voices of child abuse victims often go unheard. Saqib Mugloo records two such painful experiences hoping...
Celebration Simplified
Shrinking free space has fast made community centres and marriage halls find acceptance in an otherwise guarded society like Kashmir. Mohammad Raafi reports the...
Life On Wheels
They have fought their demons to stay sane in the face of rejection and hopelessness. Sehar Qazi narrates tale of three men who refuse...
Healing Hands
Pained by the rejection that specially-abled face in the society, a few noble souls joined together to start Shafaqat. To help them face the...
There For You
Instead of government, the first ones to respond during September 2014 floods were local and international NGO’s and socio-religious organizations. Saima Bhat reports their...
Faith Survives
Released five years after the 2011 headcount, the religious tables reiterate J&K’s Muslim majority status. But what makes the statistics interestingly intriguing is the...
Driven to Death!
With an alarming rise in domestic violence cases women find themselves in a fix between reporting abuse and saving their marriages. Muntaha Mehraj Hafiz reports...
Metaphor Of Loss
Except death and misfortune, nobody seems to remember Faze’s address. The latest visit was in September 2014. Survived by her eighteen-year-old granddaughter the octogenarian...
