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The River Always Wins in Jammu and Kashmir

The River Always Wins in Jammu and Kashmir

Heavy rains struck Rajouri and Poonch on July 19, 2026, and the Dharhali River surged over its banks.  The torrent swallowed the New Bus Stand area...

22.07.2026 20

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Kashmir Cannot Grow by Shrinking Nature

Kashmir Cannot Grow by Shrinking Nature

Kashmir’s economy rests on a ledger that few people read. Beneath the GDP figures lies a portfolio of glaciers, watersheds, orchards, alpine...

21.07.2026 20

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Kashmir’s Next Flood Is Already Under Construction

Kashmir’s Next Flood Is Already Under Construction

Srinagar flooded again on Monday morning.  A few hours of rain turned roads into streams and colonies into ponds throughout the so-called Smart...

21.07.2026 10

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Dr Raja Muzaffar Bhat

Kashmir’s Surat Khazana Frenzy Exposed the New Rules of Retail

Crowds rarely gather by accident.  They respond to incentives, emotion and information, often all at once.  Srinagar witnessed that lesson when...

14.07.2026 20

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Who Represents Kashmiri Voters When Their MP Is in Jail?

Voters in Baramulla did something bold in 2024.  They elected a man sitting in judicial custody to speak for them in Parliament, betting that his...

14.07.2026 10

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Kashmir Sits on a River and Still Asks Its Women to Beg for a Bucket

Kashmir loves to call itself the land of rivers, springs and lakes, where water supposedly flows as freely as the poetry written about it. Srinagar...

12.07.2026 10

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Haziqah Showkat

Dear Gen Z: Don’t Build a Life You Can’t Live

Guys! Greetings from a middle-aged hybrid person! A hybrid person in his early fifties from the East with a somewhat immersive experience of, but...

11.07.2026 10

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Wajahat Qazi

India’s PhD Crisis: Too Many Theses, Too Little Impact

A PhD is supposed to be the world’s hardest promise to keep.  A scholar spends years chasing a question nobody has answered, then defends the...

11.07.2026 30

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Kashmir Doesn’t Need More Incubators

Talk to enough founders in Kashmir and you will notice something interesting.  Nobody is really angry at the system.  They are grateful for it, in...

11.07.2026 20

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Kashmir Is Loving Its Paradise to Death

By Miyan Mohammad Arif Kashmir markets itself as paradise, and some 2.35 crore tourists believed the pitch in 2024.  That number, the highest the...

10.07.2026 20

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The Debate That Now Defines Kashmir

By Farooq Ahmad Khan  Politics rarely stands still.  Public arguments evolve, priorities shift and campaigns that once dominated newsmill gradually...

10.07.2026 20

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Kashmir Has Entered the Age of Climate Emergencies

How many more disasters will it take before Jammu and Kashmir calls this what it is: a climate emergency? Fresh cloudbursts in the Chenab Valley, the...

09.07.2026 20

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Dr Raja Muzaffar Bhat

The Biggest Lesson Kashmir’s Schools Never Teach

One hundred and sixty-eight thousand children in Jammu and Kashmir, between the ages of ten and seventeen, are caught up in drug use.  That figure...

08.07.2026 20

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The Census Couldn’t Count the Pain Behind Kashmir’s Closed Doors

By Dr. Mushtaq Rather I signed up as an enumerator for the House Listing Operation expecting spreadsheets instead of confessions.  The job asked me...

08.07.2026 20

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Capitalism’s Dystopia Must Give Way to Equilibrium

Capitalism, a uniquely Western concept and practice, wedded to democracy, was supposed to be the panacea to the world’s ‘ills’.  In...

06.07.2026 20

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Wajahat Qazi

Can Israel Stand Alone?

Benjamin Netanyahu recently said Israel should eventually stop relying on American military aid.  The statement projected confidence and a desire for...

06.07.2026 30

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Before Kashmir Cuts EWS Quota, Listen to Students Like Me

A false story keeps spreading about students like me.  Self-proclaimed campus activists insist that the Economically Weaker Sections category comes...

05.07.2026 30

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The Screen Time Survey That Shook Kashmir

A group of public administration students walked into schools across Pulwama district on June 13 expecting to measure a habit. What they documented...

04.07.2026 20

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Kashmir Is Sitting on an Economic Fortune It Refuses to Process

Kashmir grows some of the finest apples, walnuts, and saffron on the planet, and it sends most of that bounty out the door raw.  That single fact...

04.07.2026 30

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Kashmir’s Startup Boom Is Half Real, and the Other Half Could Sink It

A senior official stood before a room of young founders in Srinagar last year and said something nobody expected to hear at an entrepreneurship event:...

04.07.2026 20

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Kashmir’s Viral Boy Exposed an Adult Failure

By Farooq Ahmad Khan  The schoolboy who questioned Jammu and Kashmir’s education minister during the recent heat wave became the latest target of...

03.07.2026 30

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The Kashmiri Boy Who Offended Summer

Picture the ‘crime scene’: a boy walks out of his school gate under a sun that could fry an egg on the pavement, sweat soaking through his...

03.07.2026 20

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Haziqah Showkat

Panchal Valley Could Be Kashmir’s Next Landmark

Kashmir’s tourism map has barely changed in decades.  Gulmarg, Pahalgam and Sonamarg continue to dominate government campaigns, investment plans...

02.07.2026 30

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Kashmir’s Tourism Boom Is Testing the Limits of Its Water

Kashmir has welcomed millions of visitors in recent years, reviving businesses, creating jobs and injecting fresh energy into the valley’s...

02.07.2026 20

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Doctor’s Day: Kashmir Needs Compassionate Healers

By Dr. Fiaz Maqbool Fazili There came a point in my career when medicine stopped looking familiar.  Years spent as a surgeon taught me how to...

01.07.2026 30

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J&K Bank Can Do More Than Recover Debt

Industrial revival in Jammu and Kashmir has long been treated as a banking exercise.  Loans turn bad, recovery proceedings begin, one-time settlement...

01.07.2026 30

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Kashmir Needs Reconciliation More Than Rhetoric

By Farooq Ahmad Khan  Thirty-six years have passed since Kashmiri Pandits left the valley in one of the darkest chapters of modern Kashmir’s...

30.06.2026 30

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Immigrant Fantasies: The Great Escape to the West

A 30-something yuppie from Kashmir, a computer geek and a digital nomad, makes money that his parents could not even imagine earning.  In the domain...

29.06.2026 30

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Wajahat Qazi