Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen

Zeenat describes an internal departmental tussle that may end with neither doing the right thing(Ms. Zeenat Zeeshan Fazil, 26, was born in Srinagar, Kashmir. She did her schooling from King George (Mumbai) and later Cambridge (New Delhi), and received her Masters...

Can Kashmiris Change For the Better?

Can the Sun rise from the West? No, but Arjimand hopes that since Kashmiris have sunk to their lowest social and institutional degeneration, there is a possibility, howsoever slight, that things may change for the better (Mr. Arjimand Hussain Talib, 34, was born in...

The China Syndrome

Chinese “little emperors” were created by institutional edict to restrict families to one child policy. Kashmir’s “Khanmouls” are the result of easy money and growing exhibitionism among Kashmir’s burgeoning middle class. Three...

Surprise!! Record Tourist Visit Kashmir in 2010

Now imagine what it would have been like if all and sundry political jokers had not insisted on purposeless hartals2010 – Kashmir Sees Record TouristsGulmarg: The Kashmir Valley welcomed a record 7.25 lakh tourists this year despite the four-month unrest that...

Cross-Border Trade

Even the political opposition now agrees that trade across the LOC is a major CBM (two reports)Goods worth Rs 18 crore traded between two parts of KashmirSrinagar: Goods worth Rs 18 crore were traded between Kashmir and Pakistan-administered Kashmir during the weekly...