Stoning a Fate!
In a conflict zone like Kashmir anything and everything that offers peace sells like hot cakes. In last two decades many people made fortunes...
Shimla’s Kashmir Link
Born out of adversity Shimla became second home for Kashmiris fleeing Maharaja’s Begaar system, the very notorious forced labour. Even though Hari Singh fled...
Writing Texts
Not many academicians attempt to write text books in Kashmir but the trend is changing as Dr Shabnum Ara breaks the lull with her...
Aiming Big
An engineer turned businessman, Mohammed Shahid Dar is on a journey to make a significant change in the education sector in Kashmir. He aspires...
Love In Turmoil
Kashmir is not only a huge family planning story but an emerging market for aphrodiacs as well. However, in-between lies the larger reality that...
Jammu’s Damnis
Ganging and high-end crimes witnessing an upswing notwithstanding, this summer exhibited a much disturbing trend in J&K’s winter capital, the temple city of Jammu,...
A Unique Character, Koshur!
Give him power and he will use it against his fellow citizens. Give him authority and he will exploit the vulnerable for his own...
Violence Against Women
While Kashmiris claim moral high grounds over other cultures, the cases of violence against women folk have gone up considerably. Saima Bhat looks at...
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...
Women in woods
Wazwan country surely knows the grammar and the complicacies that go into the making of the feast but not the costs mutton production entails...
For Wamiq’s Justice
In 2010 teenager Wamiq Farooq’s killing was mourned across Kashmir. His family vowed to bring killers to justice. But the fight for justice against...
Vexed Volunteers
As dead bodies kept piling with the prelude of armed struggle in Kashmir in 1989, washing and burying the dead became the order of...
Love is Blind
It was the end of world for young Amir when he lost his eyesight during 2010 uprising. He resigned himself to his fate. He...
Wheel, Wails And Veil
In an old city house built a century back live three women from three generations. The nonagenarian granny earns on the spinning wheel to...
An Evolving Family
What started as a monthly exercise to mark their protest against forced disappearances of their loved ones, has now become a stress buster for...
