Jammu and not Srinagar should mourn the demise of darbar move, writes Haseeb A Drabu, asserting that the undoing of half capital status will help the city of Srinagar revive its inherent strengths

Orphans apart, hundreds of children are living the lives of orphans within and outside their homes as a consequence of orphans within and outside their homes as a consequence of divorces, matrimonial discords and family disputes. Syed Shadab Ali Gillani meets a number of young men and women who have lived pathetic lives as orphans literally while their fathers and mothers were around

Made famous by a Manto's short story and later literally living it for a long time, Teetwal in Tanghdar is a changed frontier now. Raashid Andrabi went on the long drive to report a  resonating change 

After they raise families and give it what they afford, sections of the elderly population feel lonely, neglected and in rare cases abandoned. While a chain of Old age homes has started taking care of some of these men and women , syed Shadab Ali Gillani met the experts , caregivers and home managers  to understand the factors that drove these senior citizens to these homes

In the supreme Court, a battery of top constitutional lawyers revisited more than 70  years of the making and unmaking of Article 370while challenging its reading-down on August 05,2019. Now top government lawyers are offering the other side of the story . Before reporting arguments and counter-arguments, Faiqa Masoodi started with the evolution and history of an Article that the court would eventually decide was temporary or permanent

As peace prevails, the banking sector has performed well in the last fiscal. though the focus remains on clean balance sheets, State Sponsored Schemes and corporate credit, the policymakers  may have to skip drastic drives and reassess the evolution of the sector in Jammu and Kashmir to locate the grey areas preventing smooth growth and exhibiting chronic stress, reports Masood Hussain 

Child Sex Abuse (CSA) has remained a real big challenge in Kashmir and continues to be so. The other crisis is that people speak up so late and by then innocent lives are devasted inside out, reports Syed Shadab Ali Gillani 

With joblessness at its peak and the markets in a slump, frustration is soaring in Jammu and Kashmir's youth bulge which has nearly eight lakh people seeking livelihoods. The Jammu and Kashmir government, which has traditionally remained the employer of last resorts, is now being run by slightly more than 412 thousand people, the lowest number of people on its rolls in the last decade, reports Masood Hussain

Mental morbidity is a rampant issue in Kashmir. Off late, individuals requiring medications for a night of better sleep are gradually increasing and it is a new section of addicts. While the older generation is surviving the trauma of violence, the earning section of society is troubled by the economic downturn as the younger generation is induced into insomnia by the abuse of gadgets, reports Raashid Andrabi

Even though most of the laws governing land management in Jammu and Kashmir witnessed rudimentary shifts in the last few years, the land resource continues to be a touchy subject. A housing scheme for the poor remained in the news for many days owing to land. Masood Hussain details the evolution of the land redistribution process in Kashmir's recent past

An unconventional,fearless and outspoken Kashmiri Pandit who would speak for Kashmir without dividing it into communities and communities and compartments, Sampat Prakash dies at 86. Raashiid Andrabi writes a fraction of the story from the sharp memory of the trade unionist

Markets across Kashmir used to be teeming with activity in the days ahead of Eid, a situation that is missing yet again. Syed Shabad Ali Gillani met the traders to report the "unprecedented"slump in kashmir markets in 2023 and how the emergence of Kashmir as an online market is impacting the traditional business

Jammu and Kashmir completed 1825 days (five years) without an elected government on June 19,2023. With impressive tourist footfall, minimal militancy and not a single strike in many years, the political class is seeking and early election, a demand unlikely to b accepted very soon. the administration, however, has started the process for local body polls later this year, reports Masood Hussain

Finally, Cricket has gone beyond the game. A huge business, it always has a betting business around. Now the virtual world has squeezed it into an application that millions of users avail as per their knowledge of the game. While the focus remains on winning huge money and bumper prizes, the addictive nature of the game creates more paupers, reports Raashid Andrabi

With the fertility going down and the number of childless couples increasing, Kashmir is witnessing a demand-supply gap in child adoptions, Post-2019, a new system under central laws in vague has ceased giving children in 'foster care', made adoption legal and offered parents children on a pan-India basis, reports Faiqa Masoodi

it requires a lot of comparative data to suggest if teenage knife crimes have gone up but the fact is incidents of tabbing are reported more frequently in Kashmir. The worst incident was reported last week when a 16-year-old literally butchered a man, three times older than him. Babra Wani reports the series of stabbing and and possible factors behind these incidents

Months of preparations and tons of efforts resulted in an incident-free G20 TWG meeting amid unprecedented security measures in Kashmir. Discussions around sustainable development and film tourism apart,the over-hyped event offerred interting peephole views of the perceptions and perspectives around Kashmir, reports Raashid Andrabi and Syed Shadab Ali Gillani

For months,Jammu and Kashmir's s administration has been working overtime to ensure the G20 Tourism working Group meeting is an incident-free success.Given the first-ever global event to be hosted in Srinagar, especially after August 2019, authorities are not leaving anything to go off the script, reports Raashid Andrabi and Syed Shabad Ali Gillani

A north Kashmir village is home to the most expensive shawls that Kashmir weaves. Raashid Andrabi and Insha Shirazi spent some time with the weavers to understand the craft ecosystem that survived for generations outside kashmir's Shehr-e-Khas

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and deep Machine Learning (DML) are changing the world so fast that people barely understand how certain jobs are becoming history and what the new sunrise sectors are. for a better appreciation of humanity's biggest disruptive intervention, read an interview with a distinguished scientist, Dr Faisal Farooq,currently Director Al at linked In, and profiles about two young date scientist,Zairan Mustahsan and Eizat Mushtaq, serving two major companies in US and UK.The change has compelled a group of Al scientist back home to float a training initiative

Successive rulers before and after 1947 have remained reluctant in encouraging English journalism in Jammu and Kashmir. Fighting odds, restrictions and outright denial of permissions, the English media always existed in the erstwhile state but never became the mainstay. it only started getting visible, popular and vibrant by the turn of the century, writes Nayeem Showkat

Kashmir's transition to Islam was neither the outcome of a forced conversion nor an abrupt miracle by any saint. It was a gradual process of interaction and understanding that spanned more than 400 years when a Muslim started ruling Kashmir, Scholars Mohammad Ashraf Waniand Aman Ashraf Wani write

With a huge network of colleges and a lot of enrolment, the students are dissatisfied with the pace and process of the education they get, reports Babra Wani

Centuries before the arrival of shah-e-Hamadan and the rise of Sheikh Nooruddin Noorani in the fortheenth century, Kashmir knew about Islam and Muslims. Rajatarangini, Kashmir;s oldest poetic testament of 'history'offers enough details about Muslim living in Kashmir within less than 150 years after the prophet's demise, writes Masood Hussain

The scare that 6.6 Richter scale tremors triggered  in Kashmir on March 21, evening suggests the residents have neither forgotten the horrific 2005 earthquake that flattened vast areas straddling the Loc nor erased the recent memories of Turkey and Syria's devastation. This write-up offers answers to three major questions that every tremor forces people to ask

In the 40 years of its existence, the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS),a deemed university, has emerged as a key research and health care facility for the well-being of people within and outside Kashmir. While the scope of improvements is vast, interventions in its autonomous character may neither go well with the society it serves nor the

Years after giving Kashmir an impressive book on medieval Muslim architecture,architect Hakim sameer Hamdani decided to probe Kashmir's sectarian past,a subject left untouched by scholarship. Published in early 2023, his new book has scanned almost everything  written on the subject with a focus on the nineteenth century and concluded the 'division' has been more of a power-play than a grassroots split. in a detailed interview, he explains the crisis', the rival versions and evolution of a reconciliation

After remaining invincible and impregnable for centuries, the mighty Pir Panchal is witnessing enormous developmental activity for a new expressway, a challenging railway line and most of the dam-fed hydropower projects involving an investment of tens of thousands of crores. At places, this is triggering the fragile range to cave in at the cost of homes and livelihoods of age-old villages, a situation that experts believe could have been avoided with better pre-feasibility studies and sophisticated project implementation, reports Masood Hussain

Abandoned many times in the recent past, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has started the process of imposing a property tax that is estimated to fetch Rs 150 crore and augment the resources of the urban local bodies. The move triggered a chain reaction, khalid Bashir Gura reports

Two years after the British took over the governance of Jammu and Kashmir and appointed Sir Olover St john, the first British Resident on September 25,1885, Andrew Wingate was appointed the land Settlement Officer on January 15,1887. Of the states's 28 tehsils, he did land settlement in Lal and Phak Parangna's leaving the gigantic exercise to Walter R Lawrence. In his preliminary reports, however, he detailed how the land,crops,markets and people were consumed by the middlemen unleashed on the peasantry

With the effective takeover of personal communication by the internet-powered cell phone, hundreds of fortune hunters an vested interests are generating content for a diverse audience.Offering the flip side of the virtual world, Fahd Khan reports the ways and means of the new fortune-hunting and the costs society pays on along-term basis

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Kashmir Life Magazine - July 10, 2021

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RETURN TO RELEVANCE

TALK IS NOT WALKING

‘GOVERNMENT OF INDIA WANTS EVERYONE TO BEG FOR STATEHOOD'

BROKEN CONTRACT

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