Srinagar, March 30 -- There is a strange contradiction playing out in Kashmir today - so visible, so loud, and yet so rarely questioned. It has been so, say most grandfathers and grandmothers, always ... Read More
Srinagar, March 24 -- Perhaps it is time we created one more ministerial chair - if only to ensure that at least one MLA from the ruling Jammu and Kashmir National Conference finally has a job that is... Read More
Srinagar, March 16 -- Our naags have either dried or are drying. Many are almost dead. Now imagine Kashmir without its naags. For centuries, naags were the invisible arteries of Kashmir's civilizatio... Read More
Srinagar, March 2 -- Garbage has quietly become one of the most visible signs of governance failure in Kashmir. Plastic bags flutter along highways, household waste piles up on village roads, and many... Read More
Srinagar, Feb. 23 -- There was a time in Kashmir when thirst had direction. You did not open a tap. You walked to a spring. Every settlement had a naag, every orchard its channel, every path a place ... Read More
Srinagar, Feb. 16 -- The Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the Khanabal-Baltal 2/4-laning road corridor already exits and it had been submitted to National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corp... Read More
Srinagar, Feb. 9 -- When the proposal for a railway line to Pahalgam was first floated, it did not initially trigger ecological alarm bells. Kashmir had lived through far worse assaults on its environ... Read More
Srinagar, Feb. 2 -- Every winter, India's cities witness a quiet, unsettling ritual. A Kashmiri shawlwalla rings a doorbell, opens his bag on a stranger's sofa or compound, recites the language of her... Read More
Srinagar, Jan. 26 -- Kashmir is perhaps the only place in India where entire government departments behave like seasonal shops - they open briefly when nature or crisis forces them to, and then quietl... Read More