Woman of power
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.
Helping To Heal
Adversity brings out the best in humans with conscience. Kashmir’s trying times saw many well meaning people come out to support the needy, Help...
What A Corps
Born out of the concern for Kashmir a group of Kashmiri origin students in the US, the KashmirCorps brings volunteers from around the world...
Businessman with a heart
His customers often leave their contact numbers and identity proofs to get expensive medicines on credit. But in most such cases, he knows, he...
United in adversity
With life literally under a siege in Kashmir people have come out to help each other. Volunteers are braving odds to serve the needy....
Simplicity forced
Curfews and shutdowns have forced Kashmiris to go for simple austere marriages. But not many are complaining. Instead they advocate for austerity as a...
Curfewed adaptation
At 7pm, says Abdul Hamid Beig, one of old city’s best known chemists, I start from Lal Bazaar taking the internal route. “I wait...
Take an evening break
Frequent restrictions and undeclared curfews in the old city is giving rise to an evening life, as people throng shops to buy essentials after...
Bride’s brutal departure
Police has rounded up six suspects to unravel the mystery around the death of a postgraduate girl student who’s body was fished out of...
In Baba’s Nagri
Every year thousands of Gujjars from all over the state congregate at Baba Nagri near Kangan for the annual Urs of Hazrat Baba Jee...
Mr. and Mrs. Abdul Rehman Chechi
What would you do when you don’t have a son, you desperately want, even after five children? Abdul Rehman Chechi did not have the...
Helping to eke out a living
In the absence of a consolidated government policy to help the huge number of orphans and widows in the valley, a local welfare trust...
A matter of honour
There has been an increase in harassment of women at workplace and in public places. But most victims shy away from raising their voice....
Tashakur, Khyber Jan
The small Pashto speaking community of Kashmir is getting a new cultural lifeline as a Pakistan based Pashto channel brings them closer to the...
Emptied Lap
The turmoil has exacted a heavy toll on Kashmir. For each causality reported there is an unreported emptied lap. Shazia Khan meets a few...
