Pahalgam: An Introduction
For centuries, Pahalgam has been attracting hoards of tourists, pilgrims and explorers. Famous for various Bollywood flicks, the Ashmuqam shrine, Amarnath cave and innumerable...
The Lease Row
Over the years, the successive governments skipped extending the lease of innumerable land parcels as a result of which hundreds of properties in hospitality...
The Kak Hut
As equations changed with time, the lodge housing the erstwhile Prime Minister of Kashmir was acquired by the man whose father happened to build...
Weighted Down
At the end of every year state government and Amarnath Shrine Board thanks each other for conducting annual Amarnath Yatra successfully. But what they...
A silent sell out
A deal giving Centaur hotel to a private company for 30 years was struck when Kashmir was under curfew as a seemingly helpless state...
The Last Speech
After a hectic 3-day event of travel bloggers and journalists, when a senior officer delivered his “last speech”, it undid the costly effort in...
Can Spring be far behind!
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming, Pablo Neruda once said. Spring has indeed arrived in the valley with flowers in full...
In Pictures: Valley in White
In the first week of March, the shining sun had set heads into anticipation that spring is round the corner. But as the fresh...
Pul Se Pul Tak: Rediscovering The City of Bridges
Broadcast journalist, Iqra Akhoon who produced a rare and well-received heritage web series focusing on the life and times around the historic bridges of Srinagar, jots...
Female Hikers
Boys have all the fun everywhere, especially in conservative societies. A group is trying to help girls to go on mountain camping and expeditions...
Shikargah Re-opened
Opened last week after almost two decades, the road leading to Shikargah that had become a psychological barrier obliterating it, a breathtakingly beautiful tourist...
A Deceptive Calm
An eerie calm is slowly settling down in Zanskar where communal riots had broken out over the conversion of six Buddhist families to Islam....
Grounded On Water
The abrupt August 4, order asking tourists and pilgrims to leave Kashmir marked the end of a busy tourist season. Shams Irfan met the...
Tel Aviv Outhouse
Away from the Srinagar’s politics a small tourist spot in Pahalgham is heaven for Israeli tourists. They spend their days watching ‘birds’. Suhail A...
More Stars for Kashmir
A five-star hotel conceived by Sheikh Abdullah and businessman Khawaja Saif-ud-din Baba took more than thirty years to complete. With a management contract with...
