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By Mushtaq Hurra The summer heat in Kashmir this year has been brutal. Temperatures have hit levels that locals say haven’t been seen in over a...
By Dr. Fiaz Maqbool Fazili In a shocking case that’s rattled the medical community in Kashmir, a man posing as a doctor was recently found working...
By Dr. Ashraf Zainabi A long time ago, Padma Shri Professor Jalees Ahmad Khan Tareen, who once led Kashmir University, said something...
By Dr. Mushtaq Rather In Kashmir’s government schools, a troubling question often lingers in the staff rooms: Why try harder when your promotion...
By Manish Rai The question of regime change in Iran has recently resurfaced after the killing of Iran’s top military commanders following the...
By Ayaan Saroori Between the mountains of Jammu and Kashmir, where the Chenab River flows through Doda, Kishtwar, and Ramban, one question remains:...
By Mohammad Amin Mir In the story of land in Jammu & Kashmir, a single harvest still holds the key. It’s not about what you grow today or even how...
By Barkat Ul Sultan Handoo Kashmiris like to believe they’re beyond caste, that their society is free of such divisions. But the truth is that...
By Dr. Willayat Bashir Something remarkable is unfolding in Kashmir’s orchards. In a land where patience was once the price of survival, apple...
By Gulzar Ahmad Dar Something is slowly slipping away in Kashmir classrooms. Mathematics, once seen as the purest and most reliable subject, is...
By Ikkz Ikbal In the old houses of Kashmir, the ones with carved windows and wooden eaves sagging under the weight of snow, time used to move...
By Himayun Mukhtar Qureshi On most days, the boy behind the counter barely looks up. He counts the money, puts the change on the desk, and calls the...
By Nusrat Hassan Faith in Kashmir sits close to the skin. It seeps into morning prayers, shapes the rhythm of work, and lingers in the silence of...
By Syed Majid Gilani Let’s forget for a moment the warnings printed on cigarette packs. Let’s set aside the gruesome images of damaged lungs and...
By Mohammad Amin Mir Land tells complicated stories in Kashmir. It carries generations of names, often written neatly in old revenue records. But...
By Younus Yousuf Ganie When people think about Kashmir, they mostly think about politics. But what’s slipping away silently, with barely any...
By Abhishek Kaiyat In much of the world, children travel to school. In the mountains of Jammu and Kashmir, sometimes it’s the school that must...
By Sanjeev Sirohi In a courtroom in Telangana, a question that has trapped many women in years of uncertainty was finally answered with clarity: can...
By Dr Ajaz Afzal Lone & Dr Ashwani Kumar In a constitutional democracy like India, the legitimacy of the justice system rests not only on...
By Fasil Ali For a long time, Kashmir has been caught between its natural beauty and its difficult past. The mountains have always been here, but...
By Uzma Qadir Mir Each year, thousands of students across Kashmir graduate, hoping for a fresh start. After years of lectures, exams, and...
By Mohammad Amin Mir In the long story of land reforms in India, Jammu and Kashmir once stood out. In 1976, the erstwhile state introduced the...
By Mir Mohammad Arsalan Aftab In recent years, an unreasonable and impractical preference for academic degrees in Kashmir has led to the systematic...
By Dr. Fiaz Maqbool Fazili Some dreams start with a question. In Kashmir, one such dream is fast spreading among students, professionals, and young...
By Prof. Jamsheeda Zaroo There was a time when the biggest fear in Kashmir was getting caught in crossfire. That fear hasn’t vanished, but...
By Junaid Maqbool On a Srinagar afternoon, a street vendor hands a customer a piping hot potato snacks, folded neatly in a piece of yesterday’s...
By Haqnawaz Qayoom One morning in Anantnag, a sanitation worker was sent down into a clogged sewer. He wore no safety gear. The rope tied around his...
By Suwaid Sajad It doesn’t start with a shrill anymore. It starts with silence. A boy rides his bike too fast down a lane in downtown Srinagar. A...
By Dr. Mushtaq Rather Not long ago, in Anantnag, a young girl preparing for NEET died by suicide. She was just 18. She had left the familiarity of...
By Khurram Rasool There’s always that one child in the classroom who doesn’t sit still, who stares off, who says the wrong thing at the wrong...
By Dr. Saad Parvez Some places are not meant to hold masses, but meaning. Kashmir is one of them. The question is no longer how to bring crowds, but...
By Irshad Ahmad Shah Each Baed Eid, Kashmir is flooded with fresh meat. Mutton and beef pile up in homes, fridges, and freezers within hours....
By Musaib Bilal “He seemed fine.” That’s what they said when a boy from our neighbourhood died by suicide last winter. He used to play cricket...
By Malik Daniyal What does it mean to be free? In every speech, slogan, and classroom, we’re told freedom means choice. It means living life on...
By Shafkat Aziz Hajam The days before Eid al-Azha feel different in Kashmir. The air thickens with scent of livestock, of grass crushed under hooves,...
By Vinod Chandrashekhar Dixit Covid-19 never really left. We just stopped talking about it. Now it’s back in the headlines, with numbers ticking...
By Ahmad Ayaz When the recent attack in Pahalgam made the news, everything changed in an instant. Tourists cancelled their trips. Hotels sat empty....
By Dr. Ajaz Afzal Lone Dear Mr. Omar Abdullah, More and more people in Kashmir have started asking for money online. Sometimes it’s for a...
By Nusrat Hassan It’s not something we talk about much, but most people feel it. Something has shifted in the way we live together in Kashmir. ...
By Peerzada Aarif It’s mid-May in Kashmir, and Srinagar is already sizzling past 33°C. That’s not normal. This time of year used to be...
By Zahid Mushtaq You don’t need to walk through a university gate or open a dusty grammar book to see where language really lives. It’s there in...
By Malik Daniyal Shabir Every Kashmiri home once pulsed with life—a warm, welcoming mehfil where stories flowed, hearts opened, and bonds...
By Peerzada Mohsin Shafi In Kashmir, a child’s birth brings endless joy. But the moment that child walks into school, something changes. Suddenly,...
By Mohammad Amin Mir They didn’t expect a shed to spark a legal storm. But in Kurigam, a quiet village in south Kashmir, that’s exactly what...
By Danish Shafi Ahmad Kashmir is often caught between labels. But underneath all that noise is a land with the potential to chart its own course. ...
By Mohammad Amin Mir In the folds of South Kashmir, tucked between apple orchards and old boundaries that exist more in memory than on paper, two...
By Dr. Fiaz Maqbool Fazili He was only twenty. Tall, soft-spoken, and worn out from months of back pain that wouldn’t go away. He had already...
By Dr. Ashraf Zainabi Sorrow in Kashmir often travels in silence. But not always the kind you’d expect. While stories of women’s silent...
By Malik Daniyal It was during a wedding in Srinagar few winters back that I first noticed it, not the lavish trami or the crackling kangri, but...
By Dr. Masoon A. Beig The sun was already hot by the time the villagers began to gather. It was a Sunday morning in mid-May, and the spring water...