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....
Poverty snuffs a life, a family
Historically suicide has been a rare occurrence in Kashmir’s Muslim society but it turned epidemic-like in the aftermath of armed conflict in the valley....
Working and fragmenting family
Cohesive family is the foundation of healthy and robust society. Demands of working away from home can pull apart families if personal relationships are...
SENSING LIFE WITHOUT BUNKERS
Hussain Danish takes us around Srinagar to feel what life has been like in areas where some of security forces’ bunkers were removed recently....
Scared of Life
Three sisters lost their husbands to conflict in entirely different circumstances, and on the way lost their aspirations and hope. Sameer Yasir reportsAs you...
Tiger Ladies
Kashmiri women have been at the forefront of political and social movements. Now they are writing books, mostly on contemporary issues. Syed Asma reports
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WHO WANTS TO LIVE!
Suicide cases are on the rise in Kashmir with even teenagers as young as 14, attempting suicide. Ibrahim Wani reports on an issue that...
