Posts By Marila Latif
-
1.0KDisasterSeven years later, the deluge of distress is still haunting Kashmir
The central consumer commission’s swift act to award Rs 2 crore compensation to a Delhi model for a bad haircut has shifted...
-
1.1KEnvironment
Life in Srinagar — Part III: Way out for troubled waters
In this concluding part on the waning heritage of Kashmir, experts talk about the rescue plan to safeguard the floating legacy and...
-
1.3KCulture
Life in Srinagar—Part II: (Caste)ing shadows over Nigeen Lake
One of the reasons behind the decay and downfall of Kashmir’s heritage houseboat legacy is the chronic slandering of the Hanji community....
-
392Feature
‘We had hope’: How Kashmiris tackled the communication crisis in 2019
Apart from the mother’s misery and the lovers’ longing, those summer messages in the mountains engaged all and sundry. The long-awaited dispatch...
-
1.6KEnvironment
Life in Srinagar—Part I: Pathos and Pollution of Dal Lake
Despite its indigenous Hanji community fighting the protracted battle to protect and preserve their centuries-old identity, over 40 percent of houseboats vanished...
-
1.4KCulture
Kashmiri homes becoming unbearable in summers — why?
Before being brought down in a dramatic manner, drones would capture a corrugated cityscape which once had colourful flowerbeds blooming atop. Amid...
-
1.4KIn Depth
‘Beast in bush’ is no longer an ‘urban myth’ in Kashmir
At a time when uptown city pocket dwellers are claiming a beast sighting in their neighbourhood, the man-wild conflict which earlier devoured...
-
1.5KIn Depth
All Party Meet: A tactical ‘democratic’ step to normalize August 5?
Delimitation for elections, international politics, tense line of actual control and secret meets between New Delhi and Islamabad stand peeling off the...
-
1.8KEducation
‘Kashmir is dealing with an educational emergency’
Weeks after the six-year-old Kashmiri girl’s “adorable complaint” made Raj Bhawan to set a 48-hour-long deadline to lighten burden of homework on...
-
1.6KEducation
Dispatch from Dhaka: ‘We’re losing family in Kashmir while waiting for exams here’
It took last year’s unprecedented situation to reveal how many Kashmiri students are training as doctors in Bangladeshi medical schools. In the...
