Crawling City

Traffic is a nightmare in Srinagar Choked City In a classic case of bad civic maintenance causing distress to thousands of commuters, travelling on Srinagar roads has become longer and grueling. The daily traffic mess has been worsening with each passing day. The main...

Dismal Health Care

No medical care facility in Kashmir is up to even “West Africa Standards” in spite of huge budget outlays provided by the Central government to the State for medical care. Take the case of the Bone and Joint (B&J) Hospital Lack of Funds, Poor...

Where Were those 1400 Parents Until May 2012?

Nothing provides a clearer glimpse of the Kashmiri mind than the way infant deaths in Kashmir hospitals were routinely covered up by both hospital authorities and by parents and relatives Infant dies at G B Pant hospital, Family Stages Protest Srinagar: One more...

Domestic Violence

Domestic violence generally affects only women who are at the wrong end of the bargain SWC Gets 20 Cases Daily: Shameema Aliya Bashir (Kashmir Monitor) Srinagar: With knowledge just a click away for the valley women to learn their rights, divorce and marital feuds are...

The Marriage Racket

Zeeshan sees inequalities that only good luck can overcome The Marriage Market Zeeshan Banday (JNU) “Marriages are settled in heaven and celebrated here on earth,” reads every invitation card in Kashmir irrespective of the lingual form it has viz. English, Urdu or for...