In rural Jammu and Kashmir, children as young as 7 are working along roadsides to earn anywhere from Rs70-700 per day.
Jammu: Rakesh*, a 10-year-old boy from Basawa village in Jammu and Kashmir, no longer knows when he would go back to school. The maximum temperature has hit 44°C but he stands on the Akhnoor-Sunderbani road in…
Jammu, June 17: In the lush green village of Kalihand, residents commemorate their deceased by planting trees, the fruits of which are meant for friends, neighbours and travellers.
"When someone dies in our family, we plant a tree," said Nath Ram (75), a resident of Kalihand village in Doda, a remote district in Jammu and Kashmir.
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The Winter capital of J&K is used to the Kitni Garmi hai season and celebrates it on the Tawi-river’s shore during Bijli gul weekdays and Light kab ayegi weekends. With a heart full of hope and a couple dozen calls to the lineman and 1912 (toll-free number), every family has at least one tradition they…
Social media has grown into an uncontrollable giant. Its subtle yet penetrating impact is changing the way we think. From influencing elections to triggering political discourse; propaganda tool to common man’s land; Global phenomenon to hyper-local normality, it keeps transforming itself and its users. But it has created space for everyone to do what they…
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The Wire- Interview With Former Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Padma Shri Awardee Muzaffar Baig
The chief patron of the party led by Mehbooba Mufti, who is still under house arrest, talks about the scrapping of Article 370, New Delhi downgrading J&K to a Union Territory from a state and politics in Kashmir.…
The experience of visiting Kashmir for the first time is inexplicable. There is a fear in the minds over the political atmosphere and one expects hostility despite knowing that Kashmir has a zero percent crime rate against tourists.
But terrorists don’t discriminate and so when I visited Kashmir for the first time as an adult,…
Underground by Haruki Murakami is a non-fiction book written in a highly literary style. The title Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche itself suggest what the book is about. It is a compilation of incidents that led to Tokyo gas attack collected through research and interviews. This is the first time I read non-fiction by Murakami, and…

