Posts By Marila Latif
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3.0KAchievers‘My people didn’t recognise my talent’: In conversation with Qaiser Nizami
His possible big break in the global musical award show—where icons and cults annually lock horns over the gold—might be on the...
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2.1KDisaster
Seven 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...
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2.1KEnvironment
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...
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2.7KCulture
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....
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3.2KFeature
‘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...
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3.1KEnvironment
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...
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2.9KCulture
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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2.4KIn 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...
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2.1KIn 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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3.2KEducation
‘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...
