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Government at the Door

Srinagar, Aug. 20 -- Kashmir has spent years measuring development through what people can see: wider roads, new buildings, public spaces, flyovers and fresh announcements. Srinagar has seen plenty of... Read More


Karewas Aren't Quarries

Srinagar, Aug. 19 -- Kashmir's Karewas have been cut open for years, one excavation after another, as if these ancient terraces were piles of earth waiting to be taken away. Now the scale has a numbe... Read More


A Billion Dollars Is a Number. The Test Is What It Buys

Liberia, Aug. 18 -- LIBERIA IS ABOUT to do something it has never done in its history: collect more than one billion United States dollars in domestic revenue in a single year. On the figures reported... Read More


The Price of Popularity

Srinagar, Aug. 18 -- Kashmir's environmental crisis has finally knocked at the power corridor, and the messenger makes the moment harder to dismiss. Tourism players have gone to Lok Bhavan to speak a... Read More


The Politics Can Wait. The Port Security Gaps Cannot

Liberia, Aug. 17 -- A Vice President and a Senate Pro Tempore are both eyeing 2029, and both have reasons to want this port law to go their way. Neither reason has anything to do with fixing the secur... Read More


A City Without Commons

Srinagar, Aug. 17 -- Somewhere down the line, Srinagar began losing the things that made it a city rather than a collection of buildings. Its open grounds became construction sites, its wetlands beca... Read More


Kashmir's 1.5 Problem

Srinagar, Aug. 14 -- Jammu and Kashmir has reached a strange demographic milestone. Its fertility rate has fallen to 1.5 children per woman, well below the 2.1 needed to replace the existing populatio... Read More


Kashmir's Campus Shift

Srinagar, Aug. 13 -- Kashmir's universities are beginning to confront a problem they helped create: an education system that can produce graduates faster than the economy can absorb them. For years, ... Read More


Let Heritage Live

Srinagar, Aug. 12 -- Srinagar's old city has a problem that goes beyond ageing buildings. The city is beginning to treat historic neighbourhoods as attractions while the people who give them life rec... Read More


Trust Is Infrastructure

Srinagar, Aug. 11 -- Kashmir is building at a remarkable pace. Roads are getting wider, tunnels are opening new routes, bridges are appearing in remote areas and government departments are announcing ... Read More