Srinagar, Aug. 11 -- By Shereen Naman My name is William Carpenter. I was a painter of watercolours, an Englishman who wandered the length of India in the middle years of the last century with littl... Read More
Srinagar, Aug. 11 -- By Farooq Ahmad Khan A Kashmiri stepping into a courtroom once removed his cap and replaced it with something more solemn: a handkerchief laid over his head before he addressed e... Read More
Srinagar, Aug. 10 -- By Zainul Abi Din Raina Kashmir's tourism numbers look impressive. Visitors come, hotels fill, and officials celebrate the totals. But look closer at where the money actually lan... Read More
Srinagar, Aug. 8 -- By Dr. Tariq Abdullah A colleague wrote here recently about the ledger Kashmir refuses to read: the glaciers, forests, wetlands and soils that keep the region's economy running wh... Read More
Srinagar, Aug. 8 -- By Lt Gen. R. S. Reen The monsoon hits Jammu & Kashmir the same way it always does. Clouds gather over the Pir Panjal, a cloudburst tears open a hillside, and within hours the va... Read More
Srinagar, Aug. 7 -- By Khushboo Javed My new SSRIs and therapy are my two cats for a panic disorder which could not be treated in a decade given the ignorance prevailing around the subject, at least ... Read More
Srinagar, Aug. 7 -- By Dr. Akhtar Purvez Twenty years fell away the moment my cousin's car turned onto the road where I grew up. Then, just as fast, I saw how much had changed. The lane that once he... Read More
Srinagar, Aug. 6 -- By Bilal Ahmad Khanday I was born into a Muslim family in Kashmir and grew up studying in the local darasgahs that were common across the valley in the 1980s and 1990s. These mod... Read More
Srinagar, Aug. 5 -- By Mohammad Ilyas Bhat Ask anyone in Srinagar how the week went, and the complaint comes back almost on cue: there was no time. Money got chased, careers got built, and children ... Read More
Srinagar, Aug. 5 -- By Tmr Mohsin Few places invite competing histories with the same intensity as Kashmir. Political speeches, official archives and personal memory often pull in opposite direction... Read More