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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. It’s...
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...