Commentaries

Arka Chakraborty and Suhail Ahmad Technically, winter in the Valley begins with a harsh 40-day-long (approximately) ‘Chilai Kalan’ (beginning around 21st December), followed by a relatively moderate 20-day-long (approximately) ‘Chilai…

Bhavya Dhyani Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) census of stray dogs shows that there are around 91,000 stray dogs roaming the streets of Srinagar. They roam in the City doing what…

Bhavya Dhyani and Taitreyi Biswas The COVID-19 pandemic has created havoc around the globe by claiming more than one and a half million lives and infecting more than seventy-six million…

Arka Chakraborty and Taitreyi Biswas A robust healthcare system with universal health coverage, including primary, secondary and tertiary care is critical to the well-being of individuals. This fact, alone, should…

Arka Chakraborty and Taitreyi Biswas The Srinagar-Jammu National Highway connecting the Kashmir valley to the outside world is one of the most treacherous roads in South Asia. The highway is…

Arka Chakraborty and Taitreyi Biswas The strategic and geopolitical conflict in Jammu and Kashmir tinted with the colours of religious and national identities figures very frequently in the mainstream national…

Setting prices for the mutton should be simple — cover costs, make a profit, and appeal to customers. But there are more variables to the mutton pricing formula than we…

Arka Chakraborty and Kasturi Guha   Winters in Jammu and Kashmir are always the harshest, and yet the most beautiful in the Indian subcontinent. A 40-day-long (approximately) ‘Chillai Kalan’ (harshest…

Arka chakraborty and Kasturi Guha For decades now, the administration has been combating violence in Jammu and Kashmir — but now “narco-terrorism” and “substance abuse” has become another challenge altogether…

Arka Chakraborty and Kasturi Guha   It is not a stretch to say that Jammu and Kashmir is currently standing at the proverbial crossroads of development. The new schemes introduced…

Javaid Trali The Roshni Act or the Jammu and Kashmir State Lands (Vesting of Ownership to the Occupants) Act was enacted by the then state government led by the Chief…

Arka Chakraborty and Kasturi Guha  Jammu and Kashmir is one of the coldest regions in India. Winter in the Union Territory sets in late October and lasts till early March.…