Pandit Protests
The killing of Rahul Bhatt triggered unending protests by Kashmiri Pandits who are serving the government across the Valley under a special package. Khalid...
The Eid Expenditure
Separated by around 70 days, the two Eid’s are ordained to be happy days in the Muslim lunar calendar. Happiness apart, the occasions are...
A Pet Market
In tense Kashmir’s new melancholy, pet raring has emerged as a new therapy and it has started triggering a niche business in an otherwise...
For Eternal Sleep
As the network of low and high power transmission lines increased over the years, people cannot live under them. These parcels of land, however,...
A Ticking Bomb
Not every sudden death could be attributed to heart failure as drug overdose deaths are taking place silently and at an alarming pace. Khalid...
Acidic Lives
Gruesome acid attacks take away victims' identity, pushes them to merely survive in shadows and bar them from interacting even with their own family....
Love At First Click
The virtual media has gone so real that now youngsters make their choices about their life partners on no-cost social media platforms. The trend...
Inside Orphanages
As a sting operation involving Covid19 orphans shocked Kashmir society and the government, Minhaj Masoodi visited orphanages only to find that all the pandemic...
Violating Childhood
No Covid19 orphan is displaced in Kashmir or Jammu but the last fortnight’s sting operation did revive the nightmares about some of the worst...
A Highway Station
Shortly before the non-native workforce became news following a chain of attacks, Aaqib Hyder spent some time in Wanpoh and interacted with nativse and...
Kashmir Breakfast
In spite of being at the wrong level of social stratification, Kashmir’s traditional baking has always remained a roaring business. Sarmad Dev visits a...
Fighting Fear
The killing of four non-Muslim civilians triggered a wave of insecurity sending some of the Kashmiri Pandits who had returned to Kashmir under an...
Fear, Insecurity
Civilians have remained the main collateral damage of the three decades of turmoil. Amid restoration of peace claims when a series of selective killings...
The New Age Authors
Over the last year, more and more young writers in Kashmir are taking to self-publishing their books. While enough books may not be selling,...
Offering Blood
Shocked by the death of an infant for not getting blood donation in time, a school teacher created an informal network of blood donors...
