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Gangbal, Vishansar, Krishansar, Gadsar, Tarsar, Marsar, Kounsarnag, Sheshnag, Satsar, Nundkol, Alpathar. The names read like a poem, but these lakes...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 visit to a government hospital in Kashmir often begins with hope and ends in exhaustion. The buildings look better than they did a decade ago. Fresh...
By Syed Nissar H. Gilani A few years ago, I translated Sir Francis Younghusband’s 1908 book Kashmir into Urdu. The project became a labour of...
By Durdanah Masoodi & Aabid Rasool Parents often see the warning signs before report cards do. A child who once loved learning begins to switch...
Traffic congestion has become one of the defining frustrations of daily life in Kashmir. Commuters spend precious hours trapped in long queues,...
By Farooq Ahmad Khan Explosive events in the Middle East have revealed, once again, how quickly the standing of nations can change. Countries...
By Zainul Abi Din Raina India’s Census ranks among the largest administrative exercises in the world. Census 2027 is expected to deploy nearly 30...
Government schools built Kashmir’s early gains in literacy and upward movement for ordinary families. These institutions once reached remote...
By Miyan Mohammad Arif As an advocate, I watch young people stream through our corridors daily. They come clutching files for business registrations,...
By Dr. Ashraf Zainabi The sharpest political attacks often come from opponents, but the most revealing ones come when critics and allies begin...
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