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609When a driver’s heroics stopped baker’s madness at Kashmir’s Ashmuqam
While ferrying the early-morning slaughter victims to hospital in his cab, Nisar saw a naked person in front of his cab. He...
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Kashmir in drug net: The two friends who cure, not criminalise, addicts
In past five years, two college friends have helped 150 addicts to shun drugs and it is these people who now work...
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Kashmir in drug net: Dark visitors of an abandoned house
Amid crackdown on Drug-Mafia, a medico’s shocking update on Kashmir’s ‘epidemic of drug abuse’ has only questioned the community complacency on the...
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Totem of Nund Reshi’s town continues to charm Kashmir
A veteran in the hometown of Kashmir’s patron saint tells a charming chronicle of craft and culture. The good-old radio and hookah...
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‘Our skill is our saviour’: Meet master matrons of Kashmir
They’re unassuming, unsung sheroes of Kashmir’s cottage industry. Checkpora, Chadoora — In this calm countryside pocket planted with wailing willows and longstanding...
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Damned ecology: Seven new dams carry high human and environmental cost in Kashmir
Dungduru, Kishtwar: Until a few years ago, Ghulam Hassan Magray, 36, was living comfortably in his native village, Sewerbatti, located just on...
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Exploring mines, milieu—Kashmiri geologist’s Australian odyssey
Kashmir’s Hanji community is beyond its tourism tokenism. Some of them, like Aslam Chapri, are the global ambassadors of their homeland because...
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Kashmiri analog photographers’ digital distress
The heritage city of Srinagar is fast losing its iconic addresses and identities due to changing lifestyles and tastes. The change is...
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Discarded for disorder—No takers for Kashmir’s distressed minds
‘These patients aren’t taken back despite their families being aware of their sound state. These poor souls are clearly facing violation at...
