Art, Culture & Society
Celebration Limits
As Kashmir’s weddings grow louder, residents are asking for something simple: let the festivities end before someone else’s night begins. Mir Suneem reports.
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Business & Economy
Closer Kashmir
The third Vande Bharat service promises easier travel for students, traders, families, and tourists, bringing Kashmir closer and making distance less daunting. Moien Darial reports.
Art, Culture & Society
Craft Futures
With tuition covered, Kashmir’s handicrafts department is urging artisans to send a new generation into craft management, entrepreneurship, and global markets. Bilquees Punjabi reports.
Art, Culture & Society
Kashmir Translated
Onaiza Drabu’s anthology opens Kashmiri literature to new readers, exploring what translation reveals – and erases. Amir Yaseen reviews The Big Book of Kashmiri Literature.
Art, Culture & Society
Tagged Tradition
GI QR certification can turn authenticity into a powerful market advantage for Kashmir’s artisans, craftsmen and craft-based businesses. Bisma Rafiq writes.
Environment & Climate
Living Waters
J&K’s lakes and wetlands may survive not just through government plans, but through the communities that live alongside them. Wajahat Iqbal Kashtwari writes.
Crime & Justice
Justice Nearby
A High Court bench in Ladakh could bring higher justice closer, replacing journeys of hundreds of kilometres with access closer to home. Tabish Khan reports.
Environment & Climate
Shared Ground
Is J&K turning to prevention, community preparedness, and non-lethal deterrents as wildlife increasingly meets human habitation. Syed Sameer Ahmad Nazki reports.
Health
Demographic Drift
Jammu and Kashmir’s fertility has fallen far below replacement level, reshaping an old population debate and raising new questions about ageing, work, and family life. Mir Suneem reports.
Business & Economy
Finally Connected
After years of difficult journeys and weeks of protests, the partial opening of the Sungal Tunnel offers Pir Panjal residents a rare sense of movement and a glimpse of a region less cut off from the rest of J&K. Tabish Khan reports.