Narrative

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What my six-month-old taught me about wonder

On a quiet winter morning in Kashmir, when the cold seeps into the walls and the sky outside looks pale and still,...

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Prescribed without explanation: A Kashmiri woman’s fertility journey

In Kashmir, a woman does not need to be a certain age for the pressure to begin. Whether she is in her...

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Beneath Sanskrit and Persian: Tracing the forgotten Dardic kinship between Shina and Kashmiri

While the precise origin of the Kashmiri language remains unclear, it is an indisputable and evident fact that, over the centuries, Kashmiri...

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The art of living after wanting to die

Some books do more than tell a story; they challenge the way life itself is viewed, and Veronika Decides to Die is...

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From right to commodity: The neo-liberal remaking of education in India

Amid the Galgotias controversy, the author asks who owns knowledge, tracing debt, data and dispossession in India’s teaching-for-profit education regime. The piece...

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The hidden epidemic: How overwork is damaging our brains and bodies

We wake up, reach for the phone, check emails, even before the first cup of tea. Then we start again, messages, calls,...

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Kashmir’s economy is changing fast and here’s what it must do next

On a bright autumn morning in Pampore, the fragrance of harvest lingers over the fields, which for generations were the economic lifeblood...

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Kashmir’s apple farmers are struggling and technology may be their only lifeline

The valley of Kashmir lies tucked away in India’s northernmost edge, a land ensconced between towering mountain ranges and criss-crossed by shimmering...