Drinking To Death?
For the Awantipora people, water is no better than poison. Saima Bhat reports on a town whose only source of water leads to disease.
Adil...
Sangloo And Disease
Sangloo has been so abused and polluted by locals living along its banks in Shopian that the river stands transformed from a source of...
Policing the rivers
With the increase in incidences of drowning in Kashmir, the small team of rescue and recovery River Police is ill-equipped and lacks manpower to...
A Lift To Agriculture Economy
They had to wait 28 years for a small lift irrigation scheme to complete, meanwhile people living in the 18 Tral villages suffered losses...
Drought storm
In Pakistan IFTIKHAR GILANI finds why water issue is upping the ante against India along with the longstanding Kashmir issue.
On my way back to...
Saving the Wullar
Wullar, South Asia’s largest fresh water lake, like other water bodies of Kashmir has suffered tremendous deterioration due to government apathy and public greed....
A thorny profession
The chestnuts they collect are more visible than the lives they lead. Haroon Mirani narrates the story of chestnut collectors, tucked around the fringes...
Making of a catastrophe
Strained by mining, blasting and the Baghlihar water reservoir, the mountains in Doda-Kishtwar region are giving in. The twin districts remained cut-off for 18...
Kashmir: Water War
Irrigation and Law ministries in the state are divided over the way out on Punjab’s breach of a 30-year-old water-sharing agreement. A Kashmir Life report.
When...
A river chronicled
Jhelum has remained central to the identity of Kashmir, even worshipped at times. While chroniclers and hagiographers produced accounts of dynasties and warlords, the...
