Imported Imams
Kashmir has received a steady influx of Imams from outside since the early 1990s. Apart from slowly displacing the local Imam, the phenomenon is...
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...
A Transformer’s Tale
In a small hamlet in North Kashmir’s Zainagair area called Botingoo village, an erratic electric transformer ends up uniting the villagers despite hardships. Waseem...
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...
Smoked Lives!
A small community living on city outskirts are fighting odds to keep alive Kashmir’s dying delicacy Phari or smoked fish. With local water-bodies polluted...
Chenab’s Ababeel
Saifullah Bashir meets the group leader that oversees the Chenab region like a bird and tries everything to mitigate the crisis
In 2014 when...
Hunting a match
The hunt for the prospective match is the most difficult part of the marriage in Kashmir. Ikhlaq Qadri reports
Amir is busy serving juice to...
Path to Majesty
Mughal Road has opened lanes of benefit to varied sectors of society. Javaid Naikoo reports on how this road lures some to love, and...
In the Name of Unrest
Mautkay dar say nahaq parehsan hay
Aap zinda hi kabthay jo mar jaayengay
Why does death pain you?
What is it to you?
It has been long –...
Believing in barter
Even in the 21st century many areas is Kashmir are yet to fully integrate in the modern economy. Syed Aadil reports a case of barter system still in vogue just 25 kilometers from state’s winter capital.
This Eid : Let Us Introspect
Mature societies have one thing fundamental to their growth, strength, sanity and vibrancy: introspection. It works at multiple levels starting with family, housing settlements...
Poverty snuffs a life, a family
Historically suicide has been a rare occurrence in Kashmir’s Muslim society but it turned epidemic-like in the aftermath of armed conflict in the valley....
The Daughter
Caught in the vortex of multi-polar violence, Razia Sultan’s fight to trace her disappeared father on both sides of LoC is of epic proportions....
Pigeon Passion
Pigeon-keeping, cherished by Zamaindars and Nawabs of sub-continent is also dear to a certain section of Kashmiri society. Keeping pigeons as a hobby is...
The Serial Bride?
A number of Kashmir men not affording the “expensive weddings” back home married a divorcee living on the Pir Panchal foothills. Months after the...
