Travelling to Teetwal
Made famous by a Manto's short story and later literally living it for a long time, Teetwal in Tanghdar is a changed frontier now....
(Un)Making Art 370
In the Supreme Court, a battery of top constitutional lawyers revisited more than 70 years of the making and unmaking of Article 370 while...
Kashmir’s Elder Neglect?
After they raise families and give it what they afford, sections of the elderly population feel lonely, neglected and in rare cases abandoned. While...
Bullish Banking
As peace prevails, the banking sector has performed well in the last fiscal. Though the focus remains on cleaner balance sheets, State Sponsored Schemes...
Shaken Innocence
Child Sex Abuse (CSA) has remained a real big challenge in Kashmir and continues to be so. The other crisis is that people speak...
Kashmir’s Elusive Marriages
From classism to economic independence, a lot of factors have cropped up to create a giant shadow over humanity’s oldest institution of marriage in...
A Downsized Government?
With joblessness at its peak and the markets in a slump, frustration is soaring in Jammu and Kashmir’s youth bulge which has nearly eight...
Kashmir’s Insomniacs
Mental morbidity is a rampant issue in Kashmir. Off late, individuals requiring medications for a night of better sleep are gradually increasing and it...
Kashmir: Land, Landlords, Land Redistribution
Even though most of the laws governing land management in Jammu and Kashmir witnessed rudimentary shifts in the last few years, the land resource...
Sampat Prakash Kundu (1937-2023)
An unconventional, fearless and outspoken Kashmiri Pandit who would speak for Kashmir without dividing it into communities and compartments, Sampat Prakash died at 86....
Half A Decade
Jammu and Kashmir completed 1825 days (five years) without an elected government on June 19, 2023. With impressive tourist footfall, minimal militancy and not...
Desolate Markets
Markets across Kashmir used to be teeming with activity in the days ahead of Eid, a situation that is missing yet again. Syed Shadab...
The Fantasy Fever
Finally, cricket has gone beyond the game. A huge business, it always had a betting business around. Now the virtual world has squeezed it...
Kashmir’s Knife Crimes
It requires a lot of comparative data to suggest if teenage knife crimes have gone up but the fact is incidents of stabbing are...
Adopted Parenthood
With fertility going down and the number of childless couples increasing, Kashmir is witnessing a demand-supply gap in child adoptions. Post-2019, a new system...
