Srinagar, July 31 -- By Ghulam Ahmad Mir Official tests in Kashmir last year uncovered 57 non-standard pesticide samples out of 1,654 checked. Jammu recorded just one failure in 384 samples. That di... Read More
Srinagar, July 31 -- By Malik Daniyal 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 miss the real... Read More
Srinagar, July 30 -- 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 invitation had promised lunch "sha... Read More
Srinagar, July 30 -- By Muzamil Farooq One phrase always seems to outrun the floodwater: aekhir zamaan, the end times. A cloudburst rips through a mountain village, the Jhelum swells, and within min... Read More
Srinagar, July 29 -- By Mohammad Ilyas Bhat I still remember the sting of that laughter. Years ago, in a small Kashmiri town, my friends and I sat down early in the front row of an open-air stage, w... Read More
Srinagar, July 29 -- By Moin S. Hakak Reading Wajahat Qazi's article on Orientalism in Kashmir Observer led me to a simple but consequential question: Should postcolonial critique become a substitute... Read More
Srinagar, July 29 -- By Iqbal Ahmad In 1808, Kashmir stood within an empire edging toward disintegration. The Durrani dynasty, which had swallowed the valley in 1753 under Ahmad Shah Abdali, ruled f... Read More
Srinagar, July 28 -- By Aksa Muzamil 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 is replace... Read More
Srinagar, July 27 -- By Khurram Rasool Rain fell over the valley all morning, soft and steady, turning the window into a mirror and the kitchen into a place where people spoke their hearts. She stoo... Read More
Srinagar, July 27 -- By Aabroo Hussain 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 humiliatio... Read More