New hotspots: Reopening of schools backfires as students, teachers infected
Even though Kashmir now faces a second wave of pandemic, some doctors believe that the closure of schools is not a way out.
Spring rains expose Kashmir’s faulty infrastructure
A rainfall for a couple of days leads to failure of drainage and other systems once again laid bare the tall claims of the government that has been talking about development in the region.
“He wanted to tear my flesh”: In Kashmir, sexual violence against transgenders is ignored
“He bit me as if he was hungry for many days,” she said. “It felt like he wanted to tear my flesh apart.” The transgender community in Kashmir not only faces rampant sexual abuse by gender-conforming men but also ostracisation.
“Calamity has befallen”: Of COVID-19’s toll beyond the numbers
"We are not able to sleep in this big house. Since I haven’t seen their body, I swear I don’t feel that they are not with me anymore. I just feel like they have gone to some place and that they will return soon.”
After winning DDC polls, women candidates in Kashmir hope to bring development
On the morning of 22 December 2020, Hakeema Bano woke up early in the morning to offer prayers at the break of dawn at...
Inside mental health crisis of families of disappeared persons
“The doctor told me that just like broken things cannot be fixed, their illness can also not be healed completely. This tragedy feels bigger than our son’s disappearance now.”
With few willing to step up, Kashmir’s folk dance slowly fades away
In recent years, the tradition of rouf is slowly fading away -- limited to just marriage celebrations -- as the new generation of Kashmiri women take little to no interest in learning or performing the art.
Jailed ‘Engineer’ Rashid’s peculiar politics draws voters
“I would always see my parents talking about [Rashid]. I have very high regard for him. Even though he is not here, I want to cast my vote for his candidate to prove my allegiance.”
Kashmir’s harissa makers keep afloat despite challenges
Someone in the Bhat family, Ghulam Mohammad believes, learned the art of making the harissa from the pupils of the Persian sufi Sayyid Ali Hamadani -- it is believed that the sufi scholar introduced the delicacy in Kashmir.
Life inside a 40-hour long Cordon and Search Operation in Kashmir
“He’s a kid. He would collect these [bullet cartridges] with other kids just to play with them. But they don’t care. They can even kill a kid for keeping those.”