Against All Odds
Kashmiri Pandit community is for the large part settled outside of Kashmir. Syed Asma reports on those that stayed behind.
Vijay Gunjoo has been a...
The Young and The Restless
A teenager, Muzaffar never received the help he and his family were in desperate search of after he was shot at and paralysed during...
Syeda Begum
Pain, personal loss, poverty and violent death have for long been constant features of her life. A lonely old widow, Syeda Begum has lost...
Barbed wire, armed gaze
Sheep and Animal Husbandry department runs a training centre for its newly-appointed employees in Srinagar in the middle of a paramilitary camp.Zahid Maqbool reports....
Mosques First, Schools Later
years after a devastating earthquake flattened a vast area straddling the LoC, Sameer Yasir spent a day in Uri to understand that the area...
Business Of Tear Smoke
In the recent years of unrest, young Kashmiris were often found on the frontlines, pelting stones in protest. But as Mukeet Akmali reports, three...
Pizza Frenzy
Fast food culture is growing fast in Kashmir with young people preferring pizzas, burgers and other junk food to traditional foods. Khurram Rasool tracks the...
Empty Nests
As more and more people head out to foreign shores for better opportunities, they leave behind aged parents. Left to themselves, the old often...
Unhappily Married
The lives of thousands of women are in a limbo because their husbands refuse them divorce (mis) using sharia law. Mohammad Afzal Sofi reports...
Collateral ‘Sacrifices’
They picked up arms and fought for their convictions, but the militants’ and ex-militants’ sisters and female relatives are being rejected by the society...
Imported Imams
Kashmir has received a steady influx of Imams from outside since the early 1990s. Apart from slowly displacing the local Imam, the phenomenon is...
Halo of Working Women
Women who have salaried jobs are not only financially independent but participate more productively in making family decisions and decisions about the future and...
The Grace of Charity
Orphans and destitute widows pose a huge moral challenge to the people in Kashmir. The society has responded through personal and private institutional efforts...
Business of Begging
Ramadan attracts hoards of beggers from Indian planes to Kashmir but these special summer visitors do not always come on their own. They are...
Pandits, politics and rehabilitation
Hundreds of migrant Pandits have returned to Kashmir and are residing in newly-built colonies made by the government in different parts of the valley....
