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The River Always Wins in Jammu and Kashmir

Srinagar, July 21 -- By Anuj Kumar Verma 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 in Rajouri... Read More


Kashmir's Encroached Rivers Turn Rain Into Ruin

Srinagar, July 21 -- By Mohammad Amin Mir Kashmir faces floods that grow more destructive with each heavy downpour. Government teams issue alerts, close schools, and mobilize responders whenever sat... Read More


When Sugar Was a Celebration in Kashmir

Srinagar, July 20 -- By Dr. Akhtar Purvez Sugar, in the Kashmir of my childhood, was treated less like an ingredient than a sacrament. My grandmother's house in Anantnag, known locally as Islamabad,... Read More


The Velvet Trap: Inside Kashmir's Broken Merit Race

Srinagar, July 20 -- By Mohammad Anamul Haque Ahanger Four in the afternoon, and the roads outside the valley's coaching hubs fill with exhaustion. Overhead, billboards display the faces of teenage ... Read More


Kashmir Cannot Grow by Shrinking Nature

Srinagar, July 20 -- By Javed Hussain Mir Kashmir's economy rests on a ledger that few people read. Beneath the GDP figures lies a portfolio of glaciers, watersheds, orchards, alpine pastures and we... Read More


The Real Pollution in Kashmir Is Human Behaviour

Srinagar, July 18 -- By Farah Zaidi Kashmir once had to prove its beauty was real. Now it has to prove that beauty is worth protecting. Over the past few weeks, social media has filled with disturbi... Read More


My Recovery Tells a Different Story About Kashmir

Srinagar, July 18 -- By Syed Nissar H Gilani Six months ago, my gut failed without warning. That sentence still stops me. A body that had walked five to seven kilometers every day, that had never to... Read More


The Letter I Never Wrote

Srinagar, July 18 -- By Faizaan Bashir I sat by the window long after the city outside had gone still, a blank sheet of paper glowing under the lamp, and for a long while I simply watched the light f... Read More


Kashmir's Common Ground Is Disappearing

Srinagar, July 18 -- By Mohammad Amin Mir Picture a plot of land that technically belongs to hundreds of families at once. Nobody owns it individually, so in practice, almost nobody defends it. That... Read More


Kashmir's Global Fruit Bet Begins With a Box of Cherries

Srinagar, July 18 -- By Sehreena Maqbool Generations of fruit growers in Kashmir watched their harvests head toward wholesale markets in Delhi, Mumbai and Chandigarh, where prices often rose and fell... Read More