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Unjust access to justice for women and girls

Shobha Shukla · Mar 26, 2026 · 7 min read

Structural Inequalities and Weak Law Enforcement Hinder Justice for Women Worldwide

The Promise of ChinarZaar: Another Cosmetic Renewal Vanishing

Haris Mashooq Zia · Mar 25, 2026 · 5 min read

Srinagar’s green deficit requires real urban renewal of its green spaces and waterways through systemic governance, accountability and public involvement

A Distant War Reminds Us of the Thin Line Between Development and Dependence

Farooq Ahmad Bakloo · Mar 25, 2026 · 4 min read

The LPG shortage demonstrates our failure to integrate traditional with modern systems

Mehraj Malik’s Incarceration and the Ghost of 1987

Fiaz Pampori · Mar 24, 2026 · 6 min read

In 1987, votes were rigged, today, the winner is jailed; but the anger building in young hearts looks dangerously the same

Equity, Outrage and Judicial Pause

Syed Aqib Hussain · Mar 23, 2026 · 6 min read

At constitutional crossroads, the UGC 2026 Regulations are a legal test and a mirror to institutionalized exclusion

Melting Frontlines: Kashmir’s Glaciers and Gathering Crisis

Mehr un Nisa Rehman · Mar 23, 2026 · 7 min read

Jammu and Kashmir stands at the edge of an environmental and geopolitical fault line that can no longer be ignored

The Altering Map of the World

Rao Farman Ali · Mar 19, 2026 · 12 min read

The US-Israel-Iran war is jolting the world and creating a new order that is changing in unpredictable ways by the day

Vanishing Pashminas and Pherans in Delhi’s Neighbourhoods

Amit Sengupta · Mar 19, 2026 · 5 min read

How Hindutva politics turned Kashmir's winter shawl-sellers into suspects

The Last-Mile Gap: Telecom Neglect Leaves Villages in Rafiabad Digitally Stranded

Muhammad Rameez Kumar · Mar 18, 2026 · 7 min read

One service provider, no choice, weak signal: poor connectivity is quietly strangling livelihoods and education

How Rehab Centers Are Turning Therapy Sessions into Social Media Content?

Zaheer Jan · Mar 17, 2026 · 6 min read

Why Are Child Rights Bodies Silent over the unethical online exposure and exploitation of children with special needs

Trout, Technology, and Promise of Kashmir’s Blue Economy

Dr Mubeen Shah · Mar 17, 2026 · 5 min read

How modern aquaculture could transform the Valley’s rivers into engines of sustainable growth, exports, and culinary tourism

Modi’s Illusion of Global Primacy Meets Knock of Reality

Iftikhar Gilani · Mar 17, 2026 · 8 min read

India’s silence on the US-Israel affects the credibility of its claim to lead the Global South and exposes the delicate balance between New Delhi’s strategic em...

Bought and Sold: Remembering the Treaty of Amritsar, 16 March 1846

Dr Abdul Ahad · Mar 15, 2026 · 8 min read

The sale of Kashmir turned land into a commodity and people into subjects; nearly two centuries on, generations pay the price

Justice Delayed in Kashmir: Where Pace of Courts Tests Rule of Law

Dr Mubeen Shah · Mar 15, 2026 · 5 min read

Two high-profile cases, Asiya Andrabi and Shabir Ahmad Shah, highlight how prolonged detention and delayed trials raise deeper questions about due process in Ka...

The River and the Revolution: Abdul Ahad Azad and Readings for Present Iran

Rao Farman Ali · Mar 14, 2026 · 10 min read

Across a century and two geographies, Abdul Ahad Azad's Kashmir and today's Iran share the same grammar of suffering; his poetry speaks directly to Iran’s wound...

How False Flag Operations Shape Israel's Strategy in Ongoing Conflicts

Khurshed Peer · Mar 9, 2026 · 5 min read

False narratives may not always work, and myths will not erase the memory of the holocaust

When Gulf Tremors Shake Kashmir’s Fragile Economy

Dr Mubeen Shah · Mar 7, 2026 · 5 min read

As a full-fledged war takes over West Asia, economic aftershocks are unsettling energy markets, remittance flows, and vital Gulf trade that sustains Kashmir’s h...

Operation Epic Fury: Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing but Destruction

Anuradha Bhasin · Mar 6, 2026 · 8 min read

When a military operation is named after pure, uncontrolled rage, it’s a perfect nomenclature; that is exactly what it is

Renewed Crackdown on Afghan Refugees amid Vicious Slurs is Shameful, not Bravado

Murtaza Shibli · Mar 6, 2026 · 10 min read

By securitising four decades of Afghan refugee presence rather than addressing it as a human reality, Pakistan risks sowing deep and lasting resentment across P...

Decapitation vs Dialogue: Killing Leaders Promises Neither Peace nor Security

Iftikhar Gilani · Mar 5, 2026 · 6 min read

How strategic killings and negotiated settlements have shaped conflicts from the Middle East to South Asia

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