Exiled In Past
The banks of Srinagar’s Nigeen Lake are host to Kashmir’s three generations of leprosy patients. They live, grow, marry and die inside the four...
Netting the Living
Fishers of Dal Lake begin their day when the world around them retires to sleep. Once done with nocturnal activity, they bring home a...
Predators @ Work
With just 3 cases a year related to harassment of women at workplaces reported in Kashmir, we are a proud lot. But one look...
Agent Of Change
From once a notorious cannabis cultivating village to major vegetable producer, Mohanviji in Pulwama district has come a long way. Mir Farhat talks to...
Colossal Loss
In 2014 September floods, hundreds of people lost their rare objects, books and documents. While the collective flood loss was historic, the personal loss...
Trying to Help
Next time you find a lady on your doorstep selling tea and other items, don’t fret. A law post graduate from US is helping...
A Divorce Before Marriage
In a society obsessed with imitating foreign cultures marriages are losing sanctity as material things shadow virtue and goodness. Muntaha Mehraj Hafiz reports how social...
BaltisTral
Around 175 years ago, Dogra invasion in Baltistan led to banishment of King Ahmad Shah and his family in Kashmir. After twists and turns,...
Canine Casualties
Despite official claim of reducing dog population to half in just two years canines are on the loose and stronger than ever. Syed Asma...
Kashmir Nikah: A Matchless Match
With technology taking over almost every sphere of our lives, finding a perfect match is now just a click away in Kashmir. Saima Bhat...
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 “Sheikh Pandit”
He did not abandon his house even during peak militancy years of 90s. But recent floods forced Moti Lal Dhar to abandon his collapsed...
Slummed Lives
Thanks to Srinagar Municipal Corporation, slums are now permanent fixtures in city’s dotting landscape and their inhabitants, corporation's “unofficial” employees. Insha Nisar Mir & Insha Farhat spend a...
Home Alone
A number of Kashmiri girls marrying outside the state find it hard to adopt and embrace new culture, food habits, customs etc and end...
Parvaaz-e-Pakhtun
More than a century back, escaping tribal wars and British onslaught, Pashtun’s from Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkwa sought refuge in Kashmir. Safwat Zargar spends a...
