The Low Footfall
After the government evacuated tourists at the peak of a successful tourist season in August, Umar Mukhtar sees no change on ground yet after...
A Costly Recess
As around 160 thousand students are writing their examinations for three classes, Umar Khurshid revisits the state of education and the schooling in the...
A Bloody Migration
Desperate apple growers and the manufactures invested lot of time and resource to get the workforce back to work. Then a series of attacks...
A State In Transition
After almost three months of lockdown, the state of Jammu and Kashmir finally was re-organised into a federally-ruled Union Territory. To be ruled by...
The Urdu Umpire
More than 130 years of being the official language of Jammu and Kashmir, Urdu’s fate hangs in balance as the downgraded state inches towards...
Breaking A Silence
Barely four days ahead of the platinum jubilee of the communication lockdown, when the phones returned to life, not every call was a happy...
Bloody Harvest
Unlike all other unrests that Kashmir witnessed since 1990, apple somehow escaped the crisis. In the wake of the abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir’s...
Caught In Between?
Coinciding with the 50 days of lockdown, the Kashmir story migrated to America along with the Prime Ministers’ of India and Pakistan. Though the...
‘Out Of Circulation’
Almost 42 days after he was restricted to his Gupkar home, the government finally arrested DrFarooq Abdullah formally under Public Safety Act. The arrest...
A Jinxed Palace?
Overlooking the Dal Lake, a Gothic monster has proven to be inauspicious for everyone — from its builders to those interested in it post-partition. After...
Silent Disquiet?
The lockdown, now into the fourth week, offers no idea about when Kashmir will return to routine
Almost three weeks after the parliament unilaterally withdrew...
Suicide On Road
After finding the situation not conducive to sustain his family, a man who availed the rehabilitation package to return home, burnt himself to death....
Following Fathers To Graves
In south Kashmir that witnessed a spurt in militancy, post-Burhan Wani, Umar Mukhtar traced a couple of rebels who followed the suit of their...
Cavemen In Folklore
The ground realities could be hugely different from what the TV cameras record. Masood Hussain details his first-hand account about a gun battle in...
Road Block
In the superfast world, Kashmir’s arterial highway witnessed biweekly halts for the first time after 1922. Earlier, it was for the privileged passage of...
