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A Rooster Under the Kashmiri Barber's Basket

Srinagar, Aug. 22 -- By Syed Nissar H Gilani A woven willow basket, a frightened rooster beneath it, and a sharpened blade once formed an unlikely medical arrangement in Kashmir. Before hospitals an... Read More


Kashmir's Recruitment Questions Cannot Be Dismissed

Srinagar, Aug. 22 -- 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 about recruitment with politica... Read More


The Kashmir I Knew Had a Red Atlas

Srinagar, Aug. 22 -- By Syed Majid Gilani Somewhere in my childhood, a red Atlas bicycle became my first lesson in what Kashmir could give a child. It gave me movement, responsibility and a sense of... Read More


Kashmir's New Battle Is Over Its Image

Srinagar, Aug. 22 -- By Omkar Dattatray 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 Chief Mini... Read More


The Girl Who Walked Ten Kilometers to a Different Kashmir

Srinagar, Aug. 21 -- By Khan Sikendr Bashir The walk to school in Badkoote began before the sun cleared the hills. Some mornings a horse-drawn tanga rattled along the dirt track and a young Gulshan ... Read More


Kashmir Has a Living Laboratory. Its Colleges Barely Use It

Srinagar, Aug. 20 -- By Dr. Wahied Khawar Balwan Jammu and Kashmir contains some of the most biologically diverse terrain in India, stretching from subtropical foothills near Jammu to alpine meadows ... Read More


The Kashmiri Soldier Who Survived Bose's Final Flight

Srinagar, Aug. 20 -- By Dr. Ratan Bhattacharjee A Mitsubishi Ki-21 bomber sat loaded on the runway at Taihoku airfield on the afternoon of August 18, 1945. Aboard it sat Subhas Chandra Bose, bound fo... Read More


When Patients in Kashmir Would Ask Me, "Parhaiz Kath Chhum?"

Srinagar, Aug. 20 -- By Dr. Akhtar Purvez Some memories from my early years as a physician in Kashmir have dissolved into one another. The hospital wards, clinic rooms, prescriptions and long succes... Read More


Someone Is Stealing Kashmir's Six-Hundred-Year-Old Secret

Srinagar, Aug. 19 -- By Naziya Rashid 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. Both can app... Read More


Kashmir's Beauty Boom Is Built on Insecurity

Srinagar, Aug. 19 -- 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 and shades were discarded within ... Read More