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Gangbal, Vishansar, Krishansar, Gadsar, Tarsar, Marsar, Kounsarnag, Sheshnag, Satsar, Nundkol, Alpathar. The names read like a poem, but these lakes...
A number by itself tells you little. Say that Kashmir grew 21.10 lakh tonnes of apples this season and the figure sounds impressive until you place...
Kashmir floods again this year, and the script rarely changes. Rivers rise past their banks, roads vanish under brown water, families climb to...
A driver who moves a car from Delhi, Chandigarh, or Haryana into Jammu and Kashmir should be able to complete the documents without a fight. ...
This summer in Delhi, a movement born from an insult became a force strong enough to pull two Union ministers to a negotiating table. The Cockroach...
Kashmir’s mountains, lakes and forests look like separate postcards, but they actually function as one living system. Wetlands hold back floodwater,...
Kashmir universities are not short on brilliance. They count scientists who could compete on any international stage, students eager to learn, and...
Among other things, Western modernity, which may be roughly dated to the West’s Reformation and Renaissance, constituted the primacy of reason, and...
Two cases surfaced in Kashmir within days of one another, and together they expose a failure that runs deeper than either crime alone. In Bandipora,...
By Sri Varshith Kumar Reddy E By August 2026, a carbon credit economy for Jammu and Kashmir stopped being a policy dream and became something...
By Sri Varshith Kumar Reddy E Indian states now hold nearly a third of the country’s general government debt. That single fact should colour how...
I believe Kashmir needs more ground-level surveys to understand the root causes of the challenges it faces. Such studies can identify problems,...
Kashmir is running out of time to protect the glaciers, forests and rivers that keep its economy alive, and the region’s response to that fact says...
What is madness? An accurate answer is, we don’t know. A somewhat accurate one is that madness is subjective. But the great philosopher of...
By Dr. Ashraf Zainabi Jammu and Kashmir just approved a large-scale waste management project at Achan, and officials are calling it a milestone. ...
For a woman who sees a lot of dreams, sometimes the snippets of the tomorrow, oddly none of my dreams predicted Aziza Nani’s death, not even that...
Devotees fill the courtyard of Khanqah-e-Moula before dawn breaks over Srinagar’s old city. Wooden lattices, carved by hands trained in techniques...
Thousands of students leave Jammu and Kashmir for college every year, and thousands more never come back to work. Treat that as a footnote and you...
By Syed Nissar H Gilani Protecting women in India starts with teaching them to strike first and ensuring the state finishes the fight without...
One phrase always seems to outrun the floodwater: aekhir zamaan, the end times. A cloudburst rips through a mountain village, the Jhelum swells, and...
By Dr. Fiaz Maqbool Fazili Dr. Iftikhar checked his watch, walked into the marriage hall at exactly 2 p.m., and found almost nobody there. The...
Reading Wajahat Qazi’s article on Orientalism in Kashmir Observer led me to a simple but consequential question: Should postcolonial critique become...
Two years ago, local friends in Pampore asked me to see something for myself. I travelled with a cameraperson to a stretch of land beside the...
Yesterday it was Budgam. Today it is Baramulla. Tomorrow, which daughter? The most disturbing part of these crimes is the speed with which one tragedy...
The reaction to colonialism and imperialism emerged in the imperial metropoles. This is the paradox. It is one because the native who had been...
There is a particular type of humiliation in discovering that the test you sacrificed years for was rigged before you ever sat down to take it. That...
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah recently put it plainly: Jammu and Kashmir’s limited revenue leaves the government with less money to invest in...
Heavy rains struck Rajouri and Poonch on July 19, 2026, and the Dharhali River surged over its banks. The torrent swallowed the New Bus Stand area...
Kashmir’s economy rests on a ledger that few people read. Beneath the GDP figures lies a portfolio of glaciers, watersheds, orchards, alpine...
Srinagar flooded again on Monday morning. A few hours of rain turned roads into streams and colonies into ponds throughout the so-called Smart...
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