Delhi Blast: The Fear Factor
After Delhi attack, Kashmiris living outside report distrust, harassment, housing denial, workplace profiling, and rising fear linked solely to their identity, reports Babra Wani
Chasing...
The Technology Trap
A retreat to Wales meant to rediscover peace collapses under the weight of digital addiction, as broadcaster Nayeema Ahmad Mahjoor’s entire family fails to...
Kashmir’s Loveless Homes
In Kashmir, behind quiet walls and dutiful routines, many marriages unravel in silence. From arranged unions forged under family pressure to love marriages lost...
Kashmir Bride Aid
Jammu and Kashmir’s Marriage Assistance Scheme, aiding over 1.5 lakh poor women since 2015 with around Rs 500 crore, continues expanding after the government...
Kashmir’s Food Fear
Kashmir’s kitchens are in upheaval after authorities seized nearly 12 tons of rotten meat and dairy in recent raids. The full-blown crisis involving trust...
The Gujjars of Kashmir
As debates over identity, indigeneity and inclusion intensify in Jammu and Kashmir, a new reservation policy has pushed the Gujjar and Bakerwal communities into...
Kashmir: Digital Dependence
When rainstorms snapped the optical fibre link between Srinagar and Jammu, phones fell silent and the internet vanished. What followed was a day of...
Srinagar’s Transport Dilemma
As officers race for honours under the Smart City Mission, Srinagar’s streets tell a different story: displaced drivers, overcrowded buses, and a fractured commute...
Kashmir: The Embedded Memories
Masood Hussain’s account of living with a splinter wound in Kashmir becomes a lens to explore how violence embeds itself physically in people’s lives,...
Kashmir’s Empowered Widows
Two widowed mothers in Kashmir, scarred by loss and hardship, found hope in the unlikeliest of places, a classroom and a cowshed. With steady...
Kashmir: The Forgotten Thaejkaad
From Kashmir’s disappearing rice fields, Tuiyba Anwar traces the quiet revolution that once stirred each season, when women discovered rare freedoms, communities thrived on...
Kashmir’s Single Fathers
In Kashmir, the struggles and resilience of single fathers are often overlooked in a society where emotional caregiving is predominantly seen as a mother’s...
Jammu Dalits
Dalits in Jammu and Kashmir, long relegated to the margins, have waged a decades-long struggle against caste oppression, demanding dignity, representation, and justice from...
Kashmir: Escaping Poverty or Masking It?
The latest Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) report suggests Jammu and Kashmir’s Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) has improved from 12.56 to 4.80 per cent in...
Kashmir Houseboats: Anxiously Afloat
Houseboats, once a symbol of Kashmir’s floating heritage, are vanishing. Strangled by restrictions, rising costs, and a reducing number of skilled craftsmen, the industry...
