A Generation In Crisis
A kick to look for the thrill, feel good and forget troubles, a disproportionate number of youth are in substance abuse. Often started in...
Perpetual Pain
After days of labour and longing, the corpse of Sopore teenager, flown with the fury of Jhelum remains untraced. With hands joining to ensure...
Wasteful Weddings
Believed to be destined in heaven, marriage in Kashmir is gradually dragging to destruction. Consumed by the comparisons, this heavenly concept is taking a...
Subhan Hajam: Kashmir Barber Who Decimated Prostitution
When Kashmir's despots pushed women into prostitution to improve their tax kitty, a barber sacrificed almost everything in his crusade against the flesh trade....
Subhan Hajam’s Legendary Battle
As singing got into dancing and the nautch into prostitution, the Kashmir governor’s in Sikh and Dogra eras saw pleasure and money in the...
Targeted Killings
Sections within non-local staffers and migrant Pandits serving Kashmir have left the Valley in wake of a series of targeted killings. The government says...
J&K: The NHFS5 Results
The National Family Health Survey-5 (NFHS5) based on the interviews of 3087 men and 23037 women from 18318 households offers key statistics about major...
New Motherhood
Kashmir is witnessing almost half of the new births having a surgical intervention, a new trend that defies logic and tradition besides exhibiting complete...
Daughters First
Reports of women abuse in the family set-up indicate a crisis that the Kashmir society may have to tackle up-front. It will start a...
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....
