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...
Creating A Cushion
A few students were desperate to find an option for getting a few minors out of child labour. They chipped in with their pocket...
Repairing Stressed Relations
Since 2018 summer, an all India NGO is working in Srinagar and collaborates with civil and police administration in managing help to the people,...
Collateral Damage
They fight painful memories, face hardships and an uncertain future. Tens of thousands of children orphaned by two decade conflict in Kashmir suffer silently....
Faith Survives
Released five years after the 2011 headcount, the religious tables reiterate J&K’s Muslim majority status. But what makes the statistics interestingly intriguing is the...
Replicating Emotions
Intach’s effort to document historically important structures in Kashmir came handy while rebuilding devastated Dastageer Sahib Shrine. Ubeer Naqushbandi reports the behind the scene...
Love is Blind
It was the end of world for young Amir when he lost his eyesight during 2010 uprising. He resigned himself to his fate. He...
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...
Nowhere To Go
Women depending on almsgiving by households to feed their families can’t visit them due to Covid-19 crisis. They desperately need help, reports Saima Bhat
Creased...
A marriage of discord
Naeem Akhtar
Marriages in Kashmir have rather strictly been within the respective folds of two main social components over centuries, Pandits and Muslims.
The two communities...
Innocence trampled
A child killed by a father, a minor raped by a neighbour. More and more cases of child abuse are reported from different corners of the valley. Hamidullah Dar reports.
Mamu Matters
Brothers have always taken an extra step in ensuring that their sisters survive respectfully. Zubair Sofi tells the story of a family that returned...
Stolen Childhood
Thousands of children are forced to earn a livelihood for themselves and for their families and on the way sacrificing their dreams, their hope,...
A Radar Change
As India and Pakistan armies fought its first formal battle over Kashmir in 1965, a small village in Budgam paid the ultimate price. At...
In Red Zone
After the initial shock at their area being sequestered for possibly being infested with Coronavirus, it is life as usual for the residents. But...
