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The HairLooms
At a time when braid choppers have triggered a sort of crisis, Saima Bhat moved out to cover a story never touched before. She met scores of men and women, heard their tales of struggle to tell an...
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Major Recruiter
Not many people know that a pharma unit operating from Lassipora for off-shore markets is region’s major recruiter, reports Javed Sofi After having many ‘odd’ jobs in sales and marketing, Shiraz Ahmad...
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Wicker worries
As the new GST regime, brought handicrafts to the lowest five percent slab, the small, export-oriented sector is facing a crippling crisis, reports Ishtiyak Magray Arranging wicker baskets in his...
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Not Chickening Out
He left a lucrative job to start something on his own. But the business he chose has stigmas attached. Heena Muzzafar tells how Aamir created a chain of poultry shops in Srinagar despite odds Despite...
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Apple Selling
Gradually, Kashmir has started changing the way it used to sell its apple. As 14 satellite markets attracted nonlocal buyers, slightly more than one-third of the produce is sold in Kashmir. But Faheem...
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Autumn Windfall
With more than half of the 150 thousand fresh admissions, every autumn, opting for private sector schools, the costs of educating the new generation are spiralling up as the processes revolve round the...
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An Elusive Brand
From the days, Kashmir fell into the lap of Mughals, Kashmir remained a brand. Half a millennium later, it is facing a crisis, reports Masood Hussain A few years back when a delegation from Europe...
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In Avanitvarman’s Capital
When the Islamic University was established in the deserted foothills of Awantipore, the naysayers said the campus hardly suits a small highway town, home to less than 10,000 people. But the university...
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TAAI-Up
As the state tourism ministry is trying to help revive the hospitality sector, facing a historic slump for the last three years, stakeholders suggest the improvement would require a lot more than what...
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2-Wheeled Orchestra
Once made popular by the Bollywood, the complex two-wheelers are making a gradual comeback to the Kashmir road after a brand new showroom makes the thundering machines accessible, reports Umar Mukhtar...
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Aircel: Out of reach
As Aircel, the second largest cell phone service provider controlling 30 percent market in the state closed its shop, following its bankruptcy, it has started impacting the people’s lives in a way...
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Trading Blows
Kashmir’s trade and industry is confronted with certain basic issues. But the situation in which it operates for the last nearly 30 years, the sector has not remained immune to what it costs so hugely....
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Nun Chai Samavar
Now when electric power and a whole range of innovations have started impacting the traditional ways of cooking and serving Kashmir foods and tea, Faheem Mir traces an eighty-year-old restaurant that...
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Eating Dog Food
Punjabi poultry farmers have used politics to retain Kashmir as their main market to sell used layers and parents’ chicks’ that otherwise is dog food. Saima Bhat reports the costs that consumers pay...
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Broken Brushes
With the onset of digital platforms, most of the painters and the artists who would draw signpost, business hoardings and road milestones have gone out of business almost completely, reports Parrey...
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Loss at Lethpora
For an improved quality of travel, the new highway bypassed all the major markets barring Lethpora and Sangam. But, Muhammad Younis reports that behind the trendy shop-line are stories of struggle,...
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Dignified Life Explained
When a crisis hits a family, especially its head, what happens? In most of the cases, the wives desert them and settle somewhere else. Read the story of two aged women, perhaps the most known faces in...
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Camping a Life
Camping and trekking have remained associated with the high-end schools and colleges in Kashmir. Shams Irfan reports the emergence of a new enterprise that hosts groups of boys and girls from modest...
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A ‘Ghost’ Market
In 2003, the Mufti government took over SKIMS, the Gupkar Nursing Home and Dr Ali Jan Shopping Complex from a Trust that the National Conference would run. While the hospital and the nursing home are...
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Walnut Falls
Farmers, businessmen and politicians exhibit no difference when they start counting the foreign exchange earnings, almost stagnant for the last few years. Muhammad Younis looks on the flip side of the...
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