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Richest repository of the trends, practices, numbers and the way of life of people inhabiting Jammu and Kashmir

A Successful Journey

From a door to door salesman selling Kashmiri handicrafts in West Bengal to a self made businessman with multi-crore turnover, Fayaz Ahmad’s story is...

Unlearning Mistakes

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Catering To Change

Traditionally Kashmiri marriages are close knit family affairs where friends and relatives serve guests. But the trend is changing fast as professional caterers take...

Scholarly Different

It was a friend’s visit to Kashmir that changed Mushtaq Ahmad Rather’s life forever and landed him in Tihar Jail for seven years. Once...

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 –...

Gender Bias

Omar Abdullah threw his weight behind the LGBT struggle. But a recent research on the issue paints a grim picture of this population in...

“The irony is that the politicians in Jammu accuse us of power theft.”

Prominent civil society member Shakeel Qalander, tells Saima Bhat that Kashmir Center for Social and Development Studies (KCSDC) wants to sensitize people for the...

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...

In Pictures, Geelani’s South Kashmir Journey

KL Report SRINAGAR Braving the cold, the ailing octogenarian separatist hawk Syed Ali Geelani  Sunday left for South Kashmir’s Kulgam district. Though uncertain whether he would...

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,...