Srinagar, June 20 -- On a Srinagar afternoon, a street vendor hands a customer a piping hot potato snacks, folded neatly in a piece of yesterday's newspaper. It's a scene repeated every day across Kas... Read More
Srinagar, June 19 -- From adolescence, young Kashmiris are conditioned to believe that success begins and ends with landing a government job. Whether it's as a clerk, constable, teacher, or civil ser... Read More
Srinagar, June 19 -- It doesn't start with a shrill anymore. It starts with silence. A boy rides his bike too fast down a lane in downtown Srinagar. A girl takes a pill she says helps her sleep. A st... Read More
Srinagar, June 19 -- One morning in Anantnag, a sanitation worker was sent down into a clogged sewer. He wore no safety gear. The rope tied around his waist snapped. He fell into the pit and lost cons... Read More
Srinagar, June 19 -- These young students, most of them from our Valley, had just gone through days of uncertainty in a foreign land. They should have been welcomed with care and comfort. Instead, the... Read More
Srinagar, June 18 -- Every summer, as people head outside and the days get longer, emergency rooms start to fill with a predictable surge of cases. It isn't sunburn or food poisoning. It's kidney ston... Read More
Srinagar, June 18 -- Not long ago, in Anantnag, a young girl preparing for NEET died by suicide. She was just 18. She had left the familiarity of home for the promise of Kota, India's coaching capital... Read More
Srinagar, June 18 -- In Kralmad, a village tucked under the Pir Panjal in South Kashmir, people speak of a man who doesn't sit in offices. He builds them. Gowhar Ahmad Mir is 36. A computer engineer ... Read More
Srinagar, June 18 -- You hear it in whispers during bus rides, in clinic waiting rooms, in college corridors. Girls skipping periods for months. Women in their 20s growing facial hair. Teenagers break... Read More
Srinagar, June 18 -- We live in a world where everything moves fast. Opinions arrive before facts, and headlines often crowd out history. In Jammu and Kashmir, where life is layered with struggle, ho... Read More