In Depth

From Karakul to ‘Koukh’: Kashmir’s Kabul kaleidoscope

With the resurgence of Taliban in Afghanistan, security analysts forecast an apparent shift in the valley. But beyond contemporary Kabul conquest, tribes...

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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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‘We’re treated disgracefully’: Kashmir’s door-to-door vaccinators

The myths and the misconceptions that are being related to vaccines are often funny but mostly intense, resulting in the harassment of...

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Meet a changemaker fighting late-marriages in Kashmir

Challenging a culture of extravagance and a plagued social institution, a young Kashmiri entrepreneur is trying to make marriage affordable for Kashmiri...

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‘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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13 years of wait – why’re dentists in Kashmir ‘losing dignity’?

A decade of deprivation has forced dentists to persistently press for their demands on the streets of Srinagar. But even then they...

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Podcast: Of love-jihad, and manufacturing animosity

At the present hour welcoming summer, the old city and its allays come tuning with us about the histories which have caught...

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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...