The proposal to develop a third route to the Shri Amarnathji cave from Minamarg, near Drass, should be seen as an important infrastructure and pilgrimage-management idea. It opens a conversation...

A controversial book entered the libraries of government schools in Jammu and Kashmir, passed through an expert committee, survived official scrutiny, crossed several bureaucratic tables, attracted public expenditure and finally...

For decades, Jammu & Kashmir has witnessed governments come and go, alliances emerge and collapse, slogans change, and manifestos get rewritten. Yet one political tradition has remained remarkably consistent: the...

For decades, Jantar Mantar occupied a special place in India's democratic imagination. It was where voices from distant corners of the country converged to seek justice, recognition, and change. A...

For over three decades, the promise of Kashmiri Pandit return has occupied a special place in the political vocabulary of Jammu & Kashmir. Every few months, a conference is organized,...

In Jammu and Kashmir, there are hundreds of pressing issues demanding attention. Unemployment remains high, government offices continue to struggle with efficiency, healthcare is uneven, and drug addiction is quietly...

Jammu and Kashmir may have finally solved all its problems. At least that is the impression one gets from watching its politicians these days. Roads appear perfect, unemployment seems conquered,...

A recent social media post by senior journalist Bashir Manzar quietly asked a disturbing question: did people once visit Gulmarg to experience Gulmarg itself, but now come only for a...

In today’s Kashmir, politics is increasingly driven not by governance but by emotional spectacle. One week the Valley debates liquor. The next week Urdu. Then statehood. Then Darbar Move. Then...

For years, the restoration of statehood to Jammu & Kashmir has been projected as a constitutional necessity and an emotional aspiration. But increasingly, the slogan is attracting sarcasm instead of...