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From Kashmir to Kota: Coaching Is Killing the Spirit of Schooling

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


A Builder of Roads, and Lives, in South Kashmir

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


A Hormonal Epidemic in Kashmir's Classrooms and Colleges

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


Why Jammu and Kashmir Needs Sociology More Than Ever

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


Heart Attacks in Their 30s: A Generation at Risk in Kashmir

Srinagar, June 18 -- The discomfort started as a dull pressure under his ribs. Shakeel Ahmad, a 38-year-old schoolteacher from Baramulla, thought it was just indigestion. He kept teaching. The pain g... Read More


How a Kashmir Apple Farm Became a Viral Brand

Srinagar, June 17 -- Last harvest, in a narrow lane of Shopian's Sedow village, past rows of rusted tractors and crates piled high with fruit, 28-year-old Adil Nazir crouched beneath an apple tree wit... Read More


One Man's Mission to Marry Off Kashmir's Forgotten Daughters

Srinagar, June 17 -- Mohamad Ayoub leans back on a plastic chair outside his shop in Kazipura, a quintessential Kashmiri village in Budgam district. He watches the road as if waiting for someone, thou... Read More


'He Held Us Together':In Loving Memory of Agha Sajad Ali Qazalbash

Srinagar, June 17 -- It's hard to describe someone who felt like the heart of every room. But I have to try, even as my hands tremble and my throat tightens. Because when someone like Agha Sajad Ali ... Read More


The Persian Breath in Kashmiri Prayer

Srinagar, June 17 -- Kashmir lately remembered Ameer Kabir, the saint who crossed snow-clad mountains to cradle masses in the arms of faith. That beloved Persian priest brought to our vale not just I... Read More


Not Every Child in Kashmir Dreams in Equations

Srinagar, June 16 -- Rehana Ahanger once thought love meant correction. Her elder son, a shy boy with large eyes and a shrinking confidence, was struggling in school, particularly with math and scien... Read More