Opinion
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2.0KWhat 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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1.9KPrescribed 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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2.4KBeneath 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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1.5KThe 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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1.8KFrom 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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2.0KCity of Kashmir: Srinagar, a popular history–Review by Muhammad Nadeem
It is a peculiar kind of heartbreak to love a city that exists more in the past than in the present. You...
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1.6KThe ‘kond’ in our Koshur baghban
Kond=Narcissist. For many Kashmiri parents of millennials, the 2003 Hindi film Baghban, directed by B. R. Chopra, became a moral weapon. Its...
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1.6KWhy writers must learn to read differently
There is a moment familiar to every reader when a novel closes upon itself and leaves behind a quiet echo. We admire...
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2.3KAlgorithm of distraction: Kashmir Instagram and the death of thought
I woke up early in the morning to activate my Instagram for the weekend. I had deactivated it only yesterday. Partly in...
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2.6KThe linguistic world of Gurezi Shina and its strong Kashmiri influence
In Gurez, language does not announce itself as a marker of identity; it simply exists, woven into daily life. Shina is spoken...
