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Society

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

For Love Of The Land

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

A Growing Menace

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

Drugs Of Desperation

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

The Daughter

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....
A poor woman receiving aid at the Anjuman -- Photo: Abdul Basit

Serving The Needy

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

Manufacturing Hatred

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

Abused Childhood

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

Stuck in Divorce

Reinterpretation of the institution of Muslim marriage in a high court judgement has infuriated the Kashmir clergy. As a former high court judge seeks...
Family members of Urfi Dar -- PHOTO: ABIDNABI

‘Manufacturing’ a Terrorist?

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...
Butchers slaughtering sheep -- Photo:Bilal Bahadur.

Outsourcing a Sacrifice

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

Losing Morals?

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

A Marriage, a Tragedy

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...

Pandit Migrants: A Statistical Report

Since 1990, tens of thousands of people who left Kashmir are living the life of migrants at various places outside the Valley. For the...

Children of Lesser God

Giving birth to a defective child invites social stigma. Sadly, both parents and their child become victims of a villainous society. If we can’t...
Suhail Ahmad Dar with his mother-Photo:Sameer Yasir.

21 Years Later

Way back in 1991, a fateful woman was abandoned in Jaipur by her careless Kashmiri husband , who took away their infant son and...