Society

While the issue of security for women hogged headlines in mainland India, Kashmir’s is a different story. Being a conservative society, very few cases...

It was a promising year for the state of Jammu and Kashmir with a good number of social workers, students, educationists, scientists, etc, making...

With Kashmir becoming the first-choice of the Indian middle class, Srinagar spent nights hunting for sheltering guests this summer. Is it the beginning of...

At the peak of insurgency against Indian rule in Kashmir valley when Pandit community became easy targets of unidentified gunmen, in many cases separatist...

There has been a significant rise in the number of unmarried girls visiting the hospitals, health centres and private clinics across Kashmir to abort...

With Indian drug manufacturers registering a remarkable rise in sales over the last few years, Kashmir is consuming pleasure drugs and contraceptives like never...

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....

At a time when charitable organizations in Kashmir valley have turned into lucrative businesses, a woman has been clandestinely working over the last 50...

Slapped with what Amnesty International termed a ‘draconian’ law, two boys of Srinagar city talk to SYED ASMA about the pain and humiliation they...

In a society obliterated by violence over the last 23 years, there are shocking tales of children abused by their stepparents which have gone...

Reinterpretation of the institution of Muslim marriage in a high court judgement has infuriated the Kashmir clergy. As a former high court judge seeks...

A Lashkar commander who was killed in Sopore on Oct 21 was a forward-looking, selfless youth with a modern outlook. Some had advised him...

Millions of Muslims converge to perform Hajj in Saudi Arabia. As they offer mandatory animal sacrifices, the meat is supplied to the impoverished African...

There has been a gradual rise in the number of abandoned babies admitted at various hospitals in Kashmir. Although childless couples have come forward...

It was a tragedy of immense proportions. A family in Srinagar’s Bemina locality was busy in preparations for a marriage ceremony when their house...