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A weaver in Srinagar’s old city can still turn raw pashm into a shawl fine enough to pull through a ring, a skill passed down since the workshops...
By Muhammad Arbaaz Niazi Kashmir has spent half a century as someone else’s set. A camera crew arrives, frames the poplars and the houseboats,...
By Dr. S. Bashir Ahmad Veeri On September 7, 2013, Zubin Mehta stood before the Bavarian State Orchestra in Shalimar Bagh and led Beethoven, Haydn...
In a government primary school in rural Rajasthan, ask fifth-graders to subtract two three-digit numbers. The ASER 2022 report found that only 17.3...
The mountains outside Srinagar look permanent from almost any window in the valley. They have held the same horizon for generations, feeding rivers,...
Walter Roper Lawrence spent the better part of a decade walking Kashmir villages with a chain, a notebook and a mandate to make sense of who owned...
A traffic constable at Lal Chowk does something the Solid Waste Management Rules of 2026 have yet to manage. He stands where people can see him, and...
By Sri Varshith Kumar Reddy E The Reserve Bank of India opened its first blockchain-friendly regulatory sandbox in 2019. It welcomed smart contracts...
Ask a farmer in Kulgam what a walnut tree means to him, and he is unlikely to describe it as a crop. It is closer to a bank account with roots. A...
In the light of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (the world is one family), the glory of the elderly is their insight, their knowledge and their wisdom. In...
A college auditorium can fill up in an afternoon. A notice goes out, attendance is tied to a fest or seminar, and by two o’clock the hall is packed...
By Dr. Ashraf Zainabi A stream does not forget where it once ran. Long before a road was laid over it, and a shop opened on its old bank, the...
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s Vande Mataram grew far beyond the novel in which it first appeared, becoming a powerful voice of the freedom...
By early morning, the floors of a Kashmiri home have usually been swept clean. The idea is taught early: “An-nazafatu minal-iman”, cleanliness is...
By Dr. Humaira Gilani By late summer, I can tell the season has turned without looking at a calendar. Children start filing into clinics with the...
There is a particular indignity in watching young doctors leave hospital wards to stand on the street asking to be paid fairly. That is what MBBS...
Deodar trees on the slopes above Srinagar have stood without an axe touching their trunks since December 1996, the month the Supreme Court’s...
Kashmir has spent years asking how to bring investment into the region. That question has begun to produce an answer. Factories are opening, local...
Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi has taken a decision that may prove far more consequential for his own political future than for the National Conference. His...
When National Conference leaders walked to Aga Ruhullah Mehdi’s door in 2024 to ask him to contest the parliamentary election, they were not paying...
The BJP’s decision to replace Amit Malviya, who led its digital operations for more than a decade, with Deepak Mhaskey looks like an organisational...
A few days ago, my friend Javaid sent me a video from Chandpora in Harwan, Srinagar. A huge heap of wedding waste had been dumped beside the...
The rumblings between National Conference MP from Srinagar Agha Syed Ruhullah and Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, which had been...
The rivers in Nepal rose without ceremony this season, and swallowed roads, villages and the ordinary calculations of people who had lived beside them...
The first news of a killing has a way of changing the air in a room. Someone reads the headline aloud, a name becomes a face, and questions follow...
Agha Syed Ruhullah Mehdi’s decision to leave Parliament and the basic membership of the National Conference has turned an internal ideological...
A retired officer walks into a lawyer’s chamber holding a charge-sheet that names events from 2007. He has been out of office for years, and...
A dispute inside a Tehsildar’s office in Sopore has become larger than the allegations themselves. Two young lawyers say they were mistreated...
NEW DELHI—The world’s largest dam is rising in one of the world’s most geopolitically treacherous and seismically unstable regions. Just a few...
By Sri Varshith Kumar Reddy E Kashmir’s economic problem has often begun with a simple question: Who owns this land, where did this product come...
By Muhammad Arbaaz Niazi Kashmir has always tested politicians who want an easy relationship with power. A candidate can win on a party symbol and...
A QR code at a roadside stall says something profound about India’s economic transformation, so does a fruit grower receiving payment directly from...
A charge of sexual abuse against a teacher breaks one of the most basic promises a school makes: that children will be safe there. Families send their...
Jammu and Kashmir sits on one of the richest hydropower reserves in India: an estimated 18,000 megawatts of gross potential, with 14,867 megawatts...
I served under three chief ministers of Jammu and Kashmir across a career spanning more than three decades, and I have spent years trying to name what...
Jammu and Kashmir now counts two AIIMS campuses, twelve medical colleges, seventeen critical care blocks and 3,166 Ayushman Arogya Mandirs among its...
By Sri Varshith Kumar Reddy E India entered 2026 with a puzzle sitting at the center of its economic policy. The Reserve Bank of India still leans...
Sergio Gor arrived in Jammu and Kashmir on August 19 as a diplomat, and left behind a political argument. The U.S. ambassador to India came to meet...
By Girdhari Lal Raina The anger among Jammu and Kashmir’s unemployed youth has reached a point where the government can no longer answer questions...
By Mirza Gazanfar Ali There is a type of ruin that comes from believing your own good intentions are enough. Dostoevsky spent an entire novel...
I have spent years watching trucks loaded with sand and clay pull onto highways across Jammu & Kashmir, and I have spent those same years filing...
In my younger days, the Mohalla of a given urban agglomeration in Srinagar city and its environs was the microcosm of Kashmir. This was a region or...
Some memories from my early years as a physician in Kashmir have dissolved into one another. The hospital wards, clinic rooms, prescriptions and...
By Dr. Wahied Khawar Balwan Jammu and Kashmir contains some of the most biologically diverse terrain in India, stretching from subtropical foothills...
By Mohammad Ilyas Bhat A few days ago, at a friend’s house, I counted more than thirty empty makeup boxes piled near the gate. Different brands...
A genuine Kashmir Pashmina shawl can take months of handwork before it reaches a buyer. A power loom can produce something similar in an afternoon....
By Ashfaq Ahmed Zehgeer A video crossed two hundred thirty thousand views last week, and by the time anyone thought to check whether its claims held...
By Dr. Fiaz Maqbool Fazili A young woman walked into a clinic this year asking for tirzepatide, the injectable drug that has turned weight loss into...
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...
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