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In Kashmir's Remote Schools, One Diary Held All the Answers

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


Philosopher's Search For God On Kashmir Campus

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


Kashmir's Humanity Shines Through Hostility

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


In Kashmir, Men Battle Silent Suffering in Matrimonial Disputes

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


This Abandoned Home Might Just Save Kashmir's Climate

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