In Depth
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1.7KIndustrial packages are not handouts: Why Kashmir still needs incentives
Industrial packages are foundational instruments for economic transformation, particularly in structurally disadvantaged regions like Jammu & Kashmir. Their importance extends beyond merely...
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2.1KWhat Kashmir read in 2025: Books that moved hand to hand, heart to heart
The year 2025 in Kashmir was like any other year in Kashmir: full of rumours, expectations and disappointments. What kept Kashmiris going...
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2.1K‘My life is over’: A mother, a son, and Kashmir’s drug crisis devouring lives
A doctor meets with a drug addict at his hospital in Srinagar. In the conversation between the two reproduced below, some chilling...
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1.7KThe 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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2.5KKashmir’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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1.4KGold, shame, and silence: The cost of being a daughter
It begins in silence. A match struck somewhere deep inside a house, maybe in Haryana, maybe in Kashmir. A woman screams. Just...
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1.2KKashmir’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...
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545Kashmir’s new normal: Cheering power, silencing scrutiny
Srinagar: In the complex socio-political terrain of modern Kashmir, a troubling new norm has come to define public engagement. This is not...
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1.7KWhy the Kashmiri indie scene exists more in talk than in reality
Is the Kashmiri contemporary indie scene only a myth? Or does it exist in reality? The question doesn’t imply a lack of...
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626What patients truly want: Empathy, not empty reassurance
In the quiet, vulnerable corners where illness dwells — a sunlit hospital room or the shadowed silence of a home in recovery...
