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Kashmiris have always had a proverb for ungrateful children: “Baeba Budtum, Khidmatta Kartum” meaning, “Dear father, grow old so you can serve...
By Lt Gen. R. S. Reen For nearly 2,000 years, Baramulla has stood at the gateway to the Kashmir Valley. Today, almost anyone who lives here can tell...
Overnight rain turned Beerwah’s market into a disaster zone, but the real damage reached far beyond collapsed shutters and waterlogged shelves. A...
Dawn hits the upper Chenab hours before it reaches the towns below. Snowmelt starts moving through narrow gorges near Kishtwar, picking up speed and...
By Dr. Mushtaq Rather Cricket in Kashmir used to mean something simple: a bat, a tape ball, and an open field. Today it means floodlit stadiums,...
Money comes hard in Kashmir. A shopkeeper closes his shutters and counts what remains after rent and supplier payments. A labourer hands over a...
By Mohammad Ilyas Bhat The other day I drove a friend’s son to the airport. He was boarding a flight to Chennai, having accepted a position with a...
World politics and international relations are in a profound churn. Be it Trump tariffs, an echo of 21st century neo-mercantilism that seeks to...
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 faces floods that grow more destructive with each heavy downpour. Government teams issue alerts, close schools, and mobilize responders...
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...
Crowds rarely gather by accident. They respond to incentives, emotion and information, often all at once. Srinagar witnessed that lesson when...
Voters in Baramulla did something bold in 2024. They elected a man sitting in judicial custody to speak for them in Parliament, betting that his...
Kashmir loves to call itself the land of rivers, springs and lakes, where water supposedly flows as freely as the poetry written about it. Srinagar...
Guys! Greetings from a middle-aged hybrid person! A hybrid person in his early fifties from the East with a somewhat immersive experience of, but...
A PhD is supposed to be the world’s hardest promise to keep. A scholar spends years chasing a question nobody has answered, then defends the...
Talk to enough founders in Kashmir and you will notice something interesting. Nobody is really angry at the system. They are grateful for it, in...
By Miyan Mohammad Arif Kashmir markets itself as paradise, and some 2.35 crore tourists believed the pitch in 2024. That number, the highest the...
By Farooq Ahmad Khan Politics rarely stands still. Public arguments evolve, priorities shift and campaigns that once dominated newsmill gradually...
How many more disasters will it take before Jammu and Kashmir calls this what it is: a climate emergency? Fresh cloudbursts in the Chenab Valley, the...
One hundred and sixty-eight thousand children in Jammu and Kashmir, between the ages of ten and seventeen, are caught up in drug use. That figure...
By Dr. Mushtaq Rather I signed up as an enumerator for the House Listing Operation expecting spreadsheets instead of confessions. The job asked me...
Capitalism, a uniquely Western concept and practice, wedded to democracy, was supposed to be the panacea to the world’s ‘ills’. In...
Benjamin Netanyahu recently said Israel should eventually stop relying on American military aid. The statement projected confidence and a desire for...
A false story keeps spreading about students like me. Self-proclaimed campus activists insist that the Economically Weaker Sections category comes...
A group of public administration students walked into schools across Pulwama district on June 13 expecting to measure a habit. What they documented...
Kashmir grows some of the finest apples, walnuts, and saffron on the planet, and it sends most of that bounty out the door raw. That single fact...
A senior official stood before a room of young founders in Srinagar last year and said something nobody expected to hear at an entrepreneurship event:...
By Farooq Ahmad Khan The schoolboy who questioned Jammu and Kashmir’s education minister during the recent heat wave became the latest target of...
Picture the ‘crime scene’: a boy walks out of his school gate under a sun that could fry an egg on the pavement, sweat soaking through his...
Kashmir’s tourism map has barely changed in decades. Gulmarg, Pahalgam and Sonamarg continue to dominate government campaigns, investment plans...
Kashmir has welcomed millions of visitors in recent years, reviving businesses, creating jobs and injecting fresh energy into the valley’s...
By Dr. Fiaz Maqbool Fazili There came a point in my career when medicine stopped looking familiar. Years spent as a surgeon taught me how to...
Industrial revival in Jammu and Kashmir has long been treated as a banking exercise. Loans turn bad, recovery proceedings begin, one-time settlement...
By Farooq Ahmad Khan Thirty-six years have passed since Kashmiri Pandits left the valley in one of the darkest chapters of modern Kashmir’s...
A 30-something yuppie from Kashmir, a computer geek and a digital nomad, makes money that his parents could not even imagine earning. In the domain...
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