Posts By Marila Latif
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572EnvironmentLife 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...
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1.1KCulture
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...
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1.1KIn 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...
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1.3KIn 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...
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1.5KEducation
‘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...
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1.3KEducation
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...
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1.2KCovid-19
‘Nothing new, don’t panic’: Fungal attack in viral times
A disconcerting situation has come to define a new dreadful disease during pandemic in Kashmir. The staggering case first surfaced in the...
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1.2KCovid-19
Short of shots: Kashmiris returning disappointed from vaccine centres
As Kashmir reported a deficit of vaccines specifically from the last week, only 23% population has been jabbed with the second dose...
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252Human Rights
‘Shift Them to Kashmir Jails’: Chorus grows as COVID turns terminal
Families of Kashmiri prisoners lodged in different Indian jails are pleading the government with their amplified social media appeals to either shift...
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286Covid-19
700% COVID surge in a month: How did Kashmir reach here?
Experts say there are many reasons for the rapid COVID surge in Kashmir, like complacency, carelessness towards the disease, new mutant variants,...
