Kashmir’s Copper Girls
By 2024 fall, Kashmir will witness the first batch of 20 young women launching their engraved copper utensils line to the market. Faiqa Masoodi talked to the young women naqashi artists who are going...
August 5: Fourth Anniversary
Days ahead of the fourth anniversary of the undoing of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status, various opposition leaders participated in the formal release of a report by a non-governmental body in Delhi that evaluated...
The Bill Ballgame?
Four new bills introduced in the Lok Sabha change the assembly shareholding and the privileges that SCs, STs and the OBC’s enjoy in Jammu and Kashmir, reports Faiqa Masoodi
In the ongoing Monsoon session of...
The Serial Bride?
A number of Kashmir men not affording the “expensive weddings” back home married a divorcee living on the Pir Panchal foothills. Months after the exchanging of marriage vows, they faced unexplained separations and finally...
Almost Four Years Later
As the Supreme Court is finally going to hear the bunch of petitions challenging the reading down of Article 370 and Article 35A, Kashmir’s political class is caught between hope and apprehension, reports Faiqa...
Pervasive Harassment
Though a criminal offence with a punishment that can go up to three years of imprisonment, young women in Kashmir silently face harassment on streets and buses and survive with scars for life, reports...
Kashmir’s Ration Crisis
As the government adjusts the food policies in vogue by reducing the per capita ration eligibility, Kashmiri families are facing a food shortage. Now, they will have to go back to the market and...
Chasing Tuberculosis
TB prevalence is steadily declining in Kashmir but it still continues to be the most challenging asymptomatic crisis that people face. In almost 30 per cent of the cases, infertility of women is linked...
Boar Wells
After decades of absence, wild boars have made a grand return to Kashmir and their herds are a key challenge for sustainable agriculture and horticulture development, reports Syed Shadab Ali Gillani
Having been extinct...
Y20 In Kashmir University
Naseem Bagh, the impressive campus of the University of Kashmir hosted the 2-day Y20 event in which climate change was the focus amid downpours and unprecedented security arrangements, Raashid Andrabi reports
Amid foolproof security arrangements,...
Mother Killers
Drug abuse is already an epidemic. Earlier the drug abusers used to die silent death by overdose. Now, the resource-deficit addicts have started turning against their own relations, reports Raashid Andrabi
That the instant and...
Kashmir’s Disappearing Mesaharati
The digitized twenty-first century has bestowed almost everything upon the cell phone to the extent that it has replaced more than 50 things. While the Ramzan drummers were competing with the mosque loudspeakers, the...
Making Kashmir Home
Trafficking women into Kashmir for marriages is an old story. What is new is that not every one of the women lives an unhappy life, reports Raashid Andrabi
Aasida Sadar, a 28-year-old woman from a...
March Maniacs
A chain of violent incidents within families and relationships dominated the first half of March. These crimes may have something to do with disturbed minds that get some kind of mania with the seasonal...
Kashmir’s Naqashi Printers
Even though modernity has overtaken the traditional arts associated with handicrafts, some specialities survived the onslaught. Mir Suneem reports the maze where a neglected art form is battling for survival
On a cold winter morning,...