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The rivers in Nepal rose without ceremony this season, and swallowed roads, villages and the ordinary calculations of people who had lived beside them...
The first news of a killing has a way of changing the air in a room. Someone reads the headline aloud, a name becomes a face, and questions follow...
Agha Syed Ruhullah Mehdi’s decision to leave Parliament and the basic membership of the National Conference has turned an internal ideological...
A retired officer walks into a lawyer’s chamber holding a charge-sheet that names events from 2007. He has been out of office for years, and...
A dispute inside a Tehsildar’s office in Sopore has become larger than the allegations themselves. Two young lawyers say they were mistreated...
NEW DELHI—The world’s largest dam is rising in one of the world’s most geopolitically treacherous and seismically unstable regions. Just a few...
By Sri Varshith Kumar Reddy E Kashmir’s economic problem has often begun with a simple question: Who owns this land, where did this product come...
By Muhammad Arbaaz Niazi Kashmir has always tested politicians who want an easy relationship with power. A candidate can win on a party symbol and...
A charge of sexual abuse against a teacher breaks one of the most basic promises a school makes: that children will be safe there. Families send their...
I served under three chief ministers of Jammu and Kashmir across a career spanning more than three decades, and I have spent years trying to name what...
By Sri Varshith Kumar Reddy E India entered 2026 with a puzzle sitting at the center of its economic policy. The Reserve Bank of India still leans...
Sergio Gor arrived in Jammu and Kashmir on August 19 as a diplomat, and left behind a political argument. The U.S. ambassador to India came to meet...
By Girdhari Lal Raina The anger among Jammu and Kashmir’s unemployed youth has reached a point where the government can no longer answer questions...
By Mirza Gazanfar Ali There is a type of ruin that comes from believing your own good intentions are enough. Dostoevsky spent an entire novel...
Some memories from my early years as a physician in Kashmir have dissolved into one another. The hospital wards, clinic rooms, prescriptions and...
By Dr. Wahied Khawar Balwan Jammu and Kashmir contains some of the most biologically diverse terrain in India, stretching from subtropical foothills...
By Mohammad Ilyas Bhat A few days ago, at a friend’s house, I counted more than thirty empty makeup boxes piled near the gate. Different brands...
A genuine Kashmir Pashmina shawl can take months of handwork before it reaches a buyer. A power loom can produce something similar in an afternoon....
By Ashfaq Ahmed Zehgeer A video crossed two hundred thirty thousand views last week, and by the time anyone thought to check whether its claims held...
By Dr. Fiaz Maqbool Fazili A young woman walked into a clinic this year asking for tirzepatide, the injectable drug that has turned weight loss into...
Gangbal, Vishansar, Krishansar, Gadsar, Tarsar, Marsar, Kounsarnag, Sheshnag, Satsar, Nundkol, Alpathar. The names read like a poem, but these lakes...
Kashmir floods again this year, and the script rarely changes. Rivers rise past their banks, roads vanish under brown water, families climb to...
A driver who moves a car from Delhi, Chandigarh, or Haryana into Jammu and Kashmir should be able to complete the documents without a fight. ...
This summer in Delhi, a movement born from an insult became a force strong enough to pull two Union ministers to a negotiating table. The Cockroach...
Kashmir’s mountains, lakes and forests look like separate postcards, but they actually function as one living system. Wetlands hold back floodwater,...
Kashmir universities are not short on brilliance. They count scientists who could compete on any international stage, students eager to learn, and...
Two cases surfaced in Kashmir within days of one another, and together they expose a failure that runs deeper than either crime alone. In Bandipora,...
By Sri Varshith Kumar Reddy E By August 2026, a carbon credit economy for Jammu and Kashmir stopped being a policy dream and became something...
By Sri Varshith Kumar Reddy E Indian states now hold nearly a third of the country’s general government debt. That single fact should colour how...
I believe Kashmir needs more ground-level surveys to understand the root causes of the challenges it faces. Such studies can identify problems,...
By Dr. Ashraf Zainabi Jammu and Kashmir just approved a large-scale waste management project at Achan, and officials are calling it a milestone. ...
For a woman who sees a lot of dreams, sometimes the snippets of the tomorrow, oddly none of my dreams predicted Aziza Nani’s death, not even that...
Devotees fill the courtyard of Khanqah-e-Moula before dawn breaks over Srinagar’s old city. Wooden lattices, carved by hands trained in techniques...
Thousands of students leave Jammu and Kashmir for college every year, and thousands more never come back to work. Treat that as a footnote and you...
By Syed Nissar H Gilani Protecting women in India starts with teaching them to strike first and ensuring the state finishes the fight without...
One phrase always seems to outrun the floodwater: aekhir zamaan, the end times. A cloudburst rips through a mountain village, the Jhelum swells, and...
By Dr. Fiaz Maqbool Fazili Dr. Iftikhar checked his watch, walked into the marriage hall at exactly 2 p.m., and found almost nobody there. The...
Reading Wajahat Qazi’s article on Orientalism in Kashmir Observer led me to a simple but consequential question: Should postcolonial critique become...
Yesterday it was Budgam. Today it is Baramulla. Tomorrow, which daughter? The most disturbing part of these crimes is the speed with which one tragedy...
There is a particular type of humiliation in discovering that the test you sacrificed years for was rigged before you ever sat down to take it. That...
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...
Kashmir’s economy rests on a ledger that few people read. Beneath the GDP figures lies a portfolio of glaciers, watersheds, orchards, alpine...
Crowds rarely gather by accident. They respond to incentives, emotion and information, often all at once. Srinagar witnessed that lesson when...
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...
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...
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...
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...
By Farooq Ahmad Khan Politics rarely stands still. Public arguments evolve, priorities shift and campaigns that once dominated newsmill gradually...
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...
By Dr. Mushtaq Rather I signed up as an enumerator for the House Listing Operation expecting spreadsheets instead of confessions. The job asked me...
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