The Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the Khanabal–Baltal 2/4-laning road corridor already exits and it had been submitted to National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) in January 2024....

When the proposal for a railway line to Pahalgam was first floated, it did not initially trigger ecological alarm bells. Kashmir had lived through far worse assaults on its environment...

Every winter, India’s cities witness a quiet, unsettling ritual. A Kashmiri shawlwalla rings a doorbell, opens his bag on a stranger’s sofa or compound, recites the language of heritage, and...

Kashmir is perhaps the only place in India where entire government departments behave like seasonal shops – they open briefly when nature or crisis forces them to, and then quietly...

For decades we have spoken of Jammu and Kashmir as if it were one political soul. The truth – however uncomfortable – is that it has often been two temperaments...

There was a time in Kashmir when spirituality did not announce itself. It did not need microphones, entourages, or a cheering gallery. It arrived quietly – often barefoot, often hungry,...

An MP is not elected merely to comment on events. He is elected to shape outcomes. That requires drafting legislation, pushing policy amendments, building alliances across parties, demanding institutional reforms,...

Kashmir today is ruled less by governance and more by timelines. Its loudest politics unfolds not in secretariats, power stations or employment offices, but on Twitter/X – a space where...

Kashmir is intensely opinionated – about everything except itself. From Nitish Kumar’s political manoeuvres to Gaza’s ruins, from Israel – Palestine to faraway ideological battles, the Valley’s drawing rooms, WhatsApp...

A Kashmiri student fears travelling by air, always apprehensive of being at an airport for “routine questioning.” A young professional is asked – politely, but pointedly – where he stands...