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Who Is Watching India’s Boardrooms?

Who Is Watching India’s Boardrooms?

KPMG was conducting an internal audit at Coforge when it flagged lapses in disclosure and governance around the company’s board evaluation.  The...

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The First Line Against Drugs May Be a Friend

The First Line Against Drugs May Be a Friend

The scene is known to anyone who has lived in a college hostel or stood at an office party.  A substance goes from hand to hand, a friendly voice...

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The Otter Will Audit Kashmir Rivers

The Otter Will Audit Kashmir Rivers

Recent sightings in Gurez and the Lidder Valley suggest that the Vuder, the Kashmiri otter, still survives in some of the valley’s waters.  The...

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Could UPI Charges Change Spending Habits?

Could UPI Charges Change Spending Habits?

India’s latest UPI framework creates an unusual economic experiment.  The Finance Ministry says person-to-person payments remain free, as do...

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Kashmir Cannot Be a Footnote in India’s Youth Debate

Kashmir Cannot Be a Footnote in India’s Youth Debate

I am writing as a young Kashmiri who has spent nearly twelve years listening to, standing with and speaking for Kashmiri students.  I have met young...

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Leaving Kashmir for Work Is Not Failure

Leaving Kashmir for Work Is Not Failure

By Sameer Ahmad Sheikh I left Kashmir years ago to work in Qatar, and the first thing that struck me about the employment world outside was how...

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Modi, Masoud, and Mirwaiz

Modi, Masoud, and Mirwaiz

A speech in Jerusalem, a war in the Gulf, and a sermon in Srinagar do not, on their face, belong to the same story.  Politics rarely publicises...

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Kashmir’s Rent Problem Is Becoming an Education Problem

Kashmir’s Rent Problem Is Becoming an Education Problem

A student from Kupwara, Kulgam, Bandipora, Baramulla or Anantnag can win admission to a college in Srinagar and still face a second, less celebrated...

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JKAS Aspirants Fight a Clock That Stops at 32

JKAS Aspirants Fight a Clock That Stops at 32

Think of a graduate in Srinagar, books open at midnight, preparing for the Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Service exam. She races her own birth...

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The Hard Part of Kashmir’s Startup Boom Has Just Begun

The Hard Part of Kashmir’s Startup Boom Has Just Begun

By Yasir Altaf Zargar A generation of Kashmiri twenty-somethings has stopped waiting for a government stamp to define its future.  Walk the fruit...

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India’s Education Race Is Rigged at the Start

In a government primary school in rural Rajasthan, ask fifth-graders to subtract two three-digit numbers. The ASER 2022 report found that only 17.3...

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Kashmir’s Second Lawrence Will Be Judged by the Patwari

Walter Roper Lawrence spent the better part of a decade walking Kashmir villages with a chain, a notebook and a mandate to make sense of who owned...

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India’s Blockchain Experiments Need an Exit Plan

By Sri Varshith Kumar Reddy E The Reserve Bank of India opened its first blockchain-friendly regulatory sandbox in 2019. It welcomed smart contracts...

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Two Generations, One Home: India’s Promise to Its Elders

In the light of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (the world is one family), the glory of the elderly is their insight, their knowledge and their wisdom. In...

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The Empty Classroom Problem in Kashmir Colleges

A college auditorium can fill up in an afternoon. A notice goes out, attendance is tied to a fest or seminar, and by two o’clock the hall is packed...

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Kashmir Is Building Against Its Own Water System

By Dr. Ashraf Zainabi A stream does not forget where it once ran.  Long before a road was laid over it, and a shop opened on its old bank, the...

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Why Vande Mataram Should Not Become a Loyalty Test

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s Vande Mataram grew far beyond the novel in which it first appeared, becoming a powerful voice of the freedom...

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Kashmir Keeps Homes Clean, But Poisons Its Rivers

By early morning, the floors of a Kashmiri home have usually been swept clean. The idea is taught early: “An-nazafatu minal-iman”, cleanliness is...

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Chickenpox Season Is Here. What Kashmiri Parents Should Know

By Dr. Humaira Gilani By late summer, I can tell the season has turned without looking at a calendar.  Children start filing into clinics with the...

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Why Does Kashmir Pay Its Interns So Little?

There is a particular indignity in watching young doctors leave hospital wards to stand on the street asking to be paid fairly.  That is what MBBS...

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Thirty Years of Forest Protection in Kashmir, and Still No Real Answers

Deodar trees on the slopes above Srinagar have stood without an axe touching their trunks since December 1996, the month the Supreme Court’s...

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Ruhullah’s Political Test Begins Outside the NC

Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi has taken a decision that may prove far more consequential for his own political future than for the National Conference. His...

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Why Ruhullah’s Growing Rift With Omar Abdullah Matters

When National Conference leaders walked to Aga Ruhullah Mehdi’s door in 2024 to ask him to contest the parliamentary election, they were not paying...

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After a Decade of Digital Dominance, the BJP Is Recalibrating

The BJP’s decision to replace Amit Malviya, who led its digital operations for more than a decade, with Deepak Mhaskey looks like an organisational...

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Ruhullah Should Never Abandon National Conference

The rumblings between National Conference MP from Srinagar Agha Syed Ruhullah and Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, which had been...

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Why Nepal’s Floods Should Worry Kashmir

The rivers in Nepal rose without ceremony this season, and swallowed roads, villages and the ordinary calculations of people who had lived beside them...

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The Other Psychology of Kashmir

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...

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Can Ruhullah Build a New Politics for Kashmir?

Agha Syed Ruhullah Mehdi’s decision to leave Parliament and the basic membership of the National Conference has turned an internal ideological...

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Can a Retired Officer Be Prosecuted Without Sanction in J&K?

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...

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Sopore Bar vs Tehsildar: What Happened Inside the Office on August 19?

A dispute inside a Tehsildar’s office in Sopore has become larger than the allegations themselves.  Two young lawyers say they were mistreated...

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China’s Super-Dam Is Becoming an Upstream Water Bomb

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...

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Can Blockchain Help Kashmir Unlock New Investment?

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...

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The NC-Ruhullah Rift Could Test Kashmir’s New Political Generation

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...

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Who Protects the Student When Trust Breaks?

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...

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What Three CMs Taught Me About Governance in Kashmir

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...

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India’s Blockchain Paradox Is Becoming an Economic Problem

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...

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Kashmir’s New Battle Is Over Its Image

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...

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Kashmir’s Recruitment Questions Cannot Be Dismissed

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...

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When Kashmir Reads Like Dostoevsky

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...

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When Patients in Kashmir Would Ask Me, “Parhaiz Kath Chhum?”

Some memories from my early years as a physician in Kashmir have dissolved into one another.  The hospital wards, clinic rooms, prescriptions and...

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Kashmir Has a Living Laboratory. Its Colleges Barely Use It

By Dr. Wahied Khawar Balwan Jammu and Kashmir contains some of the most biologically diverse terrain in India, stretching from subtropical foothills...

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Kashmir’s Beauty Boom Is Built on Insecurity

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...

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Someone Is Stealing Kashmir’s Six-Hundred-Year-Old Secret

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....

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Kashmir Cannot Let a Viral Video Become a Courtroom

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...

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Our Reckless Love Affair With Weight-Loss Drugs

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...

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Kashmir’s Alpine Lakes Need a Conservation Mission

Gangbal, Vishansar, Krishansar, Gadsar, Tarsar, Marsar, Kounsarnag, Sheshnag, Satsar, Nundkol, Alpathar.  The names read like a poem, but these lakes...

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Kashmir’s Natural Safety Net Is Disappearing

Kashmir floods again this year, and the script rarely changes.  Rivers rise past their banks, roads vanish under brown water, families climb to...

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J&K’s Unfinished Fight Over a 9% Vehicle Tax

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. ...

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Kashmir’s Recruitment System Is Failing the Young

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...

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Kashmir Needs to Think Like an Ecosystem

Kashmir’s mountains, lakes and forests look like separate postcards, but they actually function as one living system. Wetlands hold back floodwater,...

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