Rolling Junction
Engineering confused him, designs disillusioned him before business completed him. And today, a Bandipora boy is successfully running a fast food hangout in Srinagar....
Beautiful Wasteland
As Kashmir invests heavily in infrastructure and promotion to improve the visitor footfalls to resurrect the ailing hospitality sector, Shams Irfan visits prime tourist...
The Life Romance
A set of photographs showing the Srinagar romance of a couple – an American pilot and a British hostess, has been in circulation for...
Going Gangbal
Mufti Islah
Gangabal is stunning grassland perched at 15,000 feet spreads out mythically from the margins of two small almost-identical lakes, fed by the glacial...
Mini Kashmir In Mountains
Far away from Srinagar is a little Kashmir in Kishtwar shrouded in clouds between Kashmir and Jammu. Administratively part of Jammu, Wadwan is accessible...
Baltal Blaze
For decades local Muslims fed and carried Hindus to the cave shrine. Now when non-local stakeholders started meddling with their livelihood, a crisis erupted....
‘Get Well Soon’
Amid the debate over cockroaches crawling out of the biryani in Srinagar, R S Gull argues that one of the key factors for a...
Serving the faith
The conduct of the Amarnath pilgrimage is a garguntaun task every year. A huge number of government employees from almost all the departments have...
Renting Rides
It took bike enthusiast Basharat Ayaz Gilkar two years to convince authorities that renting bikes is legal in Kashmir. With already 40 bikes in...
Quarantine Hotels
Without tourists since August 5, 2019, Kashmir hoteliers opened doors to shelter the Covid-19 suspects for mandatory quarantine. Initially, most of them were unhappy...
Machil Moorings
For most of Kashmir, Machil is a border sector where the rival armies shell each other’s positions. Mahmood Ahmad, who visited the belt in...
12 Road Trip Hacks Every Family Needs
Road trips can either be extremely fun, or extremely exhausting. It all depends on how well you’ve planned for the trip, and how good...
Khyber’s Gulmarg Entry
Creating a Rs 120 crore world-class luxury resort marks the beginning of Khyber Group’s entry into the hospitality sector. Market and the government foresee...
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....
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...