A Mother’s Love
They are women who have taken up a unique role—caring for and nurturing orphaned children. Saima Bhat reports on two women, who hope their...
Community First
Baramulla’s unique charitable organization has made a name for itself. Inam Ul Haq reports on the men behind the mission. On a chilly afternoon...
Here To Stay?
You’ve seen them around many areas. People from outside of the state who come to Kashmir in search of a better life. SHAMS IRFAN...
The Ties That Bind
Culture and compromise. Saima Bhat takes a closer look at the predicament of non-Kashmiri women who marry into Kashmiri families.
Rajeshwari, 30, has been known...
SHROUDED IN SILENCE
Domestic violence in Kashmir seems to be on an increase. Apart from the social and cultural contexts in which it happens, political turmoil also...
Pounds, Dollars, and Dinars
A large destitute population notwithstanding, J&K receives only a fraction of the foreign contributions coming into India every year. Kashmir Life profiles some of...
Lost In Translation
The imposition of multiple languages other than Kashmiri is leading to an evolving Kashmiri society. But what does it mean for the new generation?...
Wealth of Faith
Religious endowments and various Trusts managing them for the people of different faiths often function as autocratic systems. But as Hussain Danish reports, some...
Path to Majesty
Mughal Road has opened lanes of benefit to varied sectors of society. Javaid Naikoo reports on how this road lures some to love, and...
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...
