Society

After angrily signing off from his blog in 2008, Omar Abdullah is back on social media. Is he gonna stay this time around, Zafar...

Many Kashmiri families are employing girls from outside the state as housemaids. Most of these girls from poor families take the job to help...

A few landless families live in small boats throughout their lives... penniless, houseless and hopeless. Ikhlaq Qadri meets a few such families in Dal...

Winters have evolved their own unique lifestyle in Kashmir. Many things have changed over years, but some things from yesteryear's are still there. Aliya Bashir takes...

They extract stones from mountains to derive their livelihood, and in many cases, the quarries they work in, end their lives. Saima Riyaz peeps...

Ikhlaq QadriTo perform Hajj once in lifetime is the dream of every Muslim. However, some perform it more than once. In rare cases some...

Restricted to their homes for the most of summer, people in Kashmir have taken to the virtual world with a vengeance... Networking, gossiping, sharing...

A new concept in the centuries-old Islamic practice of offering the sacrifice of animals on Eid-Ul-Azha is gaining popularity in Kashmir. S Ikhlaq A...

for a few thousand rupees many women from poor families in West Bengal are married to poor or mostly disabled Kashmiri men. Most of...

Even in the 21st century many areas is Kashmir are yet to fully integrate in the modern economy. Syed Aadil reports a case of barter system still in vogue just 25 kilometers from state’s winter capital.

Big fat Kashmiri weddings have become austere this season, thanks to long curfews and shutdowns, but the simple ceremonies have much bigger hassles in...

She made a career choice, which was unheard of for a woman in conservative Kashmir. Braving norms and perceptions, she kept going. Aliya Bashir reports on the first woman chief engineer of Kashmir.

Born out of the concern for Kashmir a group of Kashmiri origin students in the US, the KashmirCorps brings volunteers from around the world...