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Knitting Dreams
A young hospital management professional has converted her passion for crocheting into her profession and she sells her art online, reports Samreena Nazir As one enters the house of Snober Aijaz Khan,...
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An Ageing Bazaar
A small Bijbehara market with narrow lanes and wooden shop lines shares its evolution and decline with Srinagar’s Maharaja Bazaar. The Jhelum River, the erstwhile highway, connected the two markets,...
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A Flawed Decision
The change of nomenclature from Sadr-e-Riyasat to Governor was Jammu and Kashmir’s political disenfranchising. If the arbitrary attempts at classifying J&K Bank from a ‘private bank’ to a ‘PSU...
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Between Credit And Debit
The banking statistics offers enough of details to understand the phenomenon why Kashmir was restive over the JK Bank issue unlike other places, reports Masood Hussain JK Bank employees protesting...
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A Kazak In Kashmir
She was studying in Kazakhstan where she fell in love with a Kashmiri medical student. Finally, they landed in Kashmir where the Kazak bride built her new business, Farzana Nisar reports Kareena, a...
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Bad Business
Since the inflated Jhelum devastated Kashmir in 2014, the business is yet to show a real sign of recovery. It was demonetisation followed by the new tax regime and then a series of negative...
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Keeping The Date
For managing 365 days and decorating the kitchen walls, Kashmir alone consumes almost three million wall calendars a year. Detailed the supply and demand, Saima Bhat argues for a printing facility to...
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A Crisis, An Opportunity
Losses to Kashmir apple orchards can be assessed properly only after the government’s final survey is over. Amid mass mourning over the recent calamity, there is a strong possibility of the crisis...
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Blockade Devastation
Switching off the internet and mobile communication has not hit the software development and BPO alone but has rendered thousands jobless in other sectors too in the third month of crisis, reports Umar...
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Labour Deficit
In run-up to August 5, when the government issued advisory asking non locals to leave Kashmir immediately, tens of thousands of skilled and migrant workers left home. As the communication blockade...
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Silent Sufferers
After more than 100 days of lockdown, as parts of Kashmir witness semblance of normalcy, people are finally out of their closets to tell their stories of loss and livelihood. Shams Irfan reports the...
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Exporting Entertainment
With the closure of internet, one of the key sectors that suffered severely in a highly stressed society was the entertainment. Understanding the emerging requirement, a middle aged man resurrected his...
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Parking Paupers
For more than 125 days, neither the parking lots nor the octroi posts worked. Since they have paid hefty sums to get these spaces to earn a livelihood, Umar Mukhtar reports about their crisis they are...
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Curtains Fall
After August 5 shutdown, most of the courier and the parcel delivery companies working with the e-commerce outlets have closed forcing almost 500 young men to joblessness, reports Saifullah Bashir With...
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Cursed Numbers
Focus on particular registration numbers during routine wayside searches by the security grid has impacted the resale value of some vehicles, reports Umar Mukhtar Every evening Manzoor Ahmad, 45, a...
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Stressed Assets Doubled
As the regulator’s restructuring plan envisaged multiple riders, post-August 5, data indicates that Kashmir has doubled its impaired assets in less than nine months, mostly in Q2, reports Masood...
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Sand Storm
At the peak of internet blockade, UT administration e-auctioned around 100 sand blocks along the Jhelum river and some of its tributaries. Most of these blocks were bagged by non-locals leaving...
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Growing Money
Nursery business has become a major source of livelihood in several Kulgam villages, reports Samreena Nazir A group working in a plant nursery in Kulgam. KL Image by Samreena Nazir On a frozen morning...
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Cursed Apple
With partial lockdown still in place, and around 20 thousand metric tonnes of apple still in CA stores across Kashmir, farmers and traders are looking at huge loses, reports Shams Irfan In April, when...
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A Barber Deficit
As lockdown restricted people to their homes, hairy individuals are desperate to unburden their skulls. The added tensions are that the hair-styling sector has already been taken over by the skilled...
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