Srinagar, May 3 -- I stood in a dusty classroom, flipping through a teacher's diary that felt more like a checklist than a tool. As an academic monitor in remote Jammu and Kashmir, I'd seen this befor... Read More
Srinagar, May 3 -- The air on campus carried the scent of pine and earth, sharpened by late autumn. From where I stood, the buildings of the Islamic University of Science and Technology rose with clea... Read More
Srinagar, May 3 -- In a narrow lane of Srinagar, a boy barely ten years old is asked about the Pahalgam attack by a man holding a camera. The boy hesitates. He says something, unsure of its meaning. T... Read More
Srinagar, May 3 -- On a grey autumn morning in South Kashmir, Riyaz (name changed), a government schoolteacher, was taken into a local police station after his wife accused him of domestic violence. T... Read More
Srinagar, May 3 -- It was a quiet summer afternoon in 2024 when we reached Vevan, a remote mountain village tucked deep into Kashmir's Bandipora district. We had come as engineers, hoping to learn fro... Read More
Srinagar, May 2 -- Dr. Manzoor Ahmad Parray walks softly through Kashmir orchards, where morning mist curls like a whispered secret. The air hums with the buzz of bees, and apple trees stretch their b... Read More
Srinagar, May 2 -- In the apple orchards of Shopian, where mountain air smells of blossoms and earth, something small but powerful is at work. Earthworms, quietly burrowing through cow dung and kitche... Read More
Srinagar, May 2 -- In the apple orchards of Shopian, where mountain air smells of blossoms and earth, something small but powerful is at work. Earthworms, quietly burrowing through cow dung and kitche... Read More
Srinagar, May 2 -- In Kashmir's tuition-laden evenings, where streetlights blur into the glow of cram-school signboards, a quiet emergency is taking shape. It has no curfews, no slogans, no headlines.... Read More
Srinagar, May 2 -- Imagine scrimping and saving to send your child to school, hoping they'll learn, grow, and chase their dreams. Now picture that school turning into a money-hungry machine, demanding... Read More