Kashmir is not short of water. It is short of awareness about its own water. Across districts – from Budgam to Kupwara – decisions are being taken without answering three...

There was a time when Kashmir wasn’t just a location – it was a character. Songs floated over Dal Lake, shikaras carried stories, and every snow-clad slope was a cinematic...

There was a time when Kashmir’s waste returned to the soil. Today, it returns to us – through water, food, and air. From the shores of Dal Lake to the...

The announcement of the Kashmir Travel Mart 2026 has been received with the usual optimism. Stakeholders will gather, presentations will be made, brochures will be printed, and speeches will echo...

Kashmir has never suffered from a shortage of intelligence. It has suffered from a surplus of clever (read cunning) people who knew exactly what was wrong – and chose to...

There is a strange contradiction playing out in Kashmir today – so visible, so loud, and yet so rarely questioned. It has been so, say most grandfathers and grandmothers, always...

Perhaps it is time we created one more ministerial chair – if only to ensure that at least one MLA from the ruling Jammu and Kashmir National Conference finally has...

Our naags have either dried or are drying. Many are almost dead. Now imagine Kashmir without its naags. For centuries, naags were the invisible arteries of Kashmir’s civilization. Villages were...

Around 280–320 Deputy Commissioners have served in the Kashmir Valley since Independence. That means approximately 30-35 DCs per district on average – counting from three districts from 1947-1968, five districts...

Garbage has quietly become one of the most visible signs of governance failure in Kashmir. Plastic bags flutter along highways, household waste piles up on village roads, and many streams...