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
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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,...
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...
