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Dr Sanjay ParvaGreater Kashmir |
Our naags have either dried or are drying. Many are almost dead. Now imagine Kashmir without its naags. For centuries, naags were the invisible...
Around 280–320 Deputy Commissioners have served in the Kashmir Valley since Independence. That means approximately 30-35 DCs per district on average...
Garbage has quietly become one of the most visible signs of governance failure in Kashmir. Plastic bags flutter along highways, household waste piles...
There was a time in Kashmir when thirst had direction. You did not open a tap. You walked to a spring. Every settlement had a naag, every orchard its...
The Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the Khanabal–Baltal 2/4-laning road corridor already exits and it had been submitted to National Highways and...
When the proposal for a railway line to Pahalgam was first floated, it did not initially trigger ecological alarm bells. Kashmir had lived through far...
Every winter, India’s cities witness a quiet, unsettling ritual. A Kashmiri shawlwalla rings a doorbell, opens his bag on a stranger’s sofa or...
Kashmir is perhaps the only place in India where entire government departments behave like seasonal shops – they open briefly when nature or crisis...
For decades we have spoken of Jammu and Kashmir as if it were one political soul. The truth – however uncomfortable – is that it has often been...
There was a time in Kashmir when spirituality did not announce itself. It did not need microphones, entourages, or a cheering gallery. It arrived...
An MP is not elected merely to comment on events. He is elected to shape outcomes. That requires drafting legislation, pushing policy amendments,...
In the early 2010s, doing business in India felt like a hurdle race where the hurdles were raised mid-sprint. Do you know India once ranked an abysmal...
2025 stands as a defining chapter in India’s development journey. Across every dimension of infrastructure: rail, road, aviation, maritime, and...
Kashmir today is ruled less by governance and more by timelines. Its loudest politics unfolds not in secretariats, power stations or employment...
Kashmir is intensely opinionated – about everything except itself. From Nitish Kumar’s political manoeuvres to Gaza’s ruins, from Israel –...
A Kashmiri student fears travelling by air, always apprehensive of being at an airport for “routine questioning.” A young professional is asked...
Srinagar, we were repeatedly told, has been transformed into a “smart city.” Ironically, it was never as congested, chaotic, or directionless as...
Here is a peculiar trait in the Indian state’s political psychology – an inconsistency that has persisted from Nehru to Modi, from soft separatism...
After the recent blast in Delhi and the arrests that followed, former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah lamented that “all Kashmiris are now being looked...
When Omar Abdullah announced the revival of the Darbar Move, he justified it as a gesture of justice toward Jammu – an attempt to give the region...
In politics, defeats are often described as temporary setbacks. But some losses carry the weight of a verdict – a message so sharp that pretending...
Kashmir once had leaders whose silence carried weight and whose words moved mountains. Today, some of our politics feels like it’s happening not in...
Once, Kashmir thought. It did not just speak. It argued, contemplated, doubted, prayed, painted, sang, and rebelled – with reason as its lamp. It...
There was a time when the Darbar Move made sense. There were no servers, no scanners, no internet. Records were stored in rusted trunks and wooden...
One year into power, Kashmir got speeches instead of solutions, optics instead of outcomes, and convoys instead of compassion. The promises that rode...
Every decade, Srinagar gets a new masterplan. New alignments for ring roads, new zones for housing, new dreams of a “smart city.” But drive just...
For decades, Kashmir has been painted as a postcard paradise. The shikaras on Dal Lake, snow-capped Gulmarg, tulips in spring, saffron in autumn. This...
Floods are not new to Kashmir. The Jhelum has been both our lifeline and our destroyer, carrying silt and stories with equal force. More than a...
Two Himalayan states. Nearly the same terrain, demography, and area. One chose classrooms, roads, orchards, and hydropower. The other chose hartals,...
The Jammu and Kashmir Assembly was restored after six years of suspended democracy. For NC legislators, that return was meant to be a vindication –...
It is ironic that in a Union Territory gasping for revival, Omar Abdullah and his ilk find their loudest voice not in matters of development,...
10 steps that must be taken Srinagar lived under the shadow of floods again last week. Each heavy downpour revives the memories of September 2014,...
Step into a government office in Kashmir on a Friday afternoon and you will witness a scene that has become depressingly predictable. Before noon,...
Omar Abdullah has finally found something he can do without sweating – collecting signatures. The former Chief Minister, once in command of the...
Kashmir reeks – literally. The stench isn’t just from 3,000–3,500 kg of rotten meat seized in a single week; it’s from a Food Safety...
Alhamdulillah, in the fabled land of Kashmir – where chinars blush in autumn and promises melt faster than snowflakes in March – a grand political...
They say health is wealth. In Jammu & Kashmir, it’s more like health is stealth – something that vanishes the moment you need it most. Hospitals...
The Constitution was read, Article 370 was retired, and with much fanfare, a new dawn was declared. We were told that a historic wrong had been...
If Kashmir had a national industry, it wouldn’t be tourism, handicrafts, or horticulture. It would be grief. Because for decades, Kashmiri...
Each year, as the twin yatras of Shri Amarnath and Machail unfurl across the Himalayas, lakhs of pilgrims brave the heights not only in search of...
Jammu & Kashmir has done it again. Launched another scheme. A shiny, ambitious, slogan-loaded mission. This time it’s called “Mission YUVA.”...
In May 2023, our urban visionaries dropped 900 bicycles and 100 docking stations onto the streets of Srinagar – from Batamaloo to Lal Chowk – with...
There is a myth of powerlessness going around. The National Conference blames the LG for everything. But what stops the Chief Minister from delivering...
The world is full of stories of displacement. Very few, if any, have stories of return. The idea that Kashmiri Pandits will return en masse to the...
On June 6, 2025, a historic milestone was achieved as Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the final section of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla...
If smartness were judged by fairy lights and Instagram reels, perhaps yes. But cities aren’t judged by how they look at night – they’re judged...
When the Baisaran massacre shocked the conscience of the nation, political responses began to trickle in. Among the first to issue a strong-worded...
Kashmir will never be at ease as long as it refuses to look in the mirror. The mirror is bloody, broken, and bitter – but it is the only thing left...
The announcement of a ceasefire between India and Pakistan often evokes cautious optimism across the subcontinent. The phrase sounds comforting,...
A little girl somewhere in an Indian state no longer waits for her father to return with evening treats. A local Good Samaritan gets loveful...
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