Philauri Jaan, a resident of Nepora village in southern Kashmir, was shot at her right ribcage in 1996. Caught in a firefight between militants and military, she was termed as a “collateral damage”. The 12-year-old girl was immediately rushed to Srinagar and remained in a coma for almost two weeks. Due to the unavailability of […]
“In winters, when my father wears pheran, people get very curious about his attire. They sometimes say, ‘We were waiting for you to wear it this season.’” Dyuti Raina, a resident of Uttam Nagar in Delhi, lives in a cluster for a reason. “It might help us in preserving our culture,” she says. Kashmiris living […]
Mohammed Haneef, a resident of Pattan area of district Baramulla in north Kashmir, has become a new hope for the specially-abled people of Kashmir. Haneef lost his vision in 2007 due to a reason he does not wish to mention. Since then, the resilient man never looked back and strived to turn his disability into […]
How education, jobs and culture are linking the two northern regions with diverse ethnicities and traditions. The distance between Kashmir and Haryana is 527 km but if one looks for it, they may get an essence of Kashmir in the latter. The cultures of the two states are entirely different from each other but the […]
The conversations between the students from the two communities always confluence to make a single echo that resonated in parts of the capital campus. Walking in the corridor of All Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in the national capital, my mother got swayed away with the negativity of the usual hospital smell. While talking to […]
“This campus move isn’t always desirable, but it’s still better than staying hostage to the uncertain conditions in one’s politically-plagued homeland.”
The scenic view of mighty Jhelum from the hotel room forces you to introspect. The uneasy silence makes you stand between peace and conflict.
The average yearly consumption of meat in JK including Ladakh is more than 50 million kilograms. The majority of Kashmiris prefer mutton over chicken.
The successive central and state governments over the past few years promised to make J&K a hub of solar energy production but the study conducted by the Centre for Science and Environment has placed J&K at bottom of the list.
A strong advocate of human and fundamental rights, Kannan Gopinathan, ex-IAS officer, has taken the current government upfront on various issues. In an exclusive chat with Kashmir Observer, the ex-civil servant talks in detail, why J&K was the reason for his resignation from his job.
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