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Women, Work, and the State: Mapping Women’s Socioeconomic Mobility in Contemporary Jammu & Kashmir

Women, Work, and the State: Mapping Women’s Socioeconomic Mobility in Contemporary Jammu & Kashmir

Three-Tier Panchayat Elections in Abeyance: Oligarchy or Tyrannical Order?

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Sports, Spiritual Legacy, and Youth Aspiration: Towards a Progressive Jammu and Kashmir

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The Crisis of Reading, Research and Intellectual Culture in Jammu and Kashmir

Dispossessed and Disappeared: Resource Nationalism and State Repression in Balochistan

Reconfiguring Baisakhi

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Reconfiguring Baisakhi

By: Sheeraz Zaman ( Socio-Political Activist) Baisakhi does not merely recur as a calendrical event; it reasserts itself as a dense civilizational moment in...

Fasting and Ramadan: Meaning Beyond the Ritual

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Fasting and Ramadan: Meaning Beyond the Ritual

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Festivities of Colour: Holi in a Fractured Age

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Festivities of Colour: Holi in a Fractured Age

2 months ago

Festivities Galore – Shivratri

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Festivities Galore – Shivratri

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Festivities Galore – Shivratri

Festivities Galore – Shivratri

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Dispossessed and Disappeared: Resource Nationalism and State Repression in Balochistan

Dispossessed and Disappeared: Resource Nationalism and State Repression in Balochistan

2 weeks ago

The Forgotten Suffering of Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir: Power, Silence and the Human Cost of Impunity

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The Forgotten Suffering of Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir: Power, Silence and the Human Cost of Impunity

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Public Dissent and Political Accountability: Comparative Reflections from India and Pakistan

Public Dissent and Political Accountability: Comparative Reflections from India and Pakistan

1 month ago

Bread, Electricity and Bullets: What Pakistan’s Crackdown in PoK Exposes

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Bread, Electricity and Bullets: What Pakistan’s Crackdown in PoK Exposes

2 months ago

Women, Work, and the State: Mapping Women’s Socioeconomic Mobility in Contemporary Jammu & Kashmir

Women, Work, and the State: Mapping Women’s Socioeconomic Mobility in Contemporary Jammu & Kashmir

Women, Work, and the State: Mapping Women’s Socioeconomic Mobility in Contemporary Jammu & Kashmir

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Sports, Spiritual Legacy, and Youth Aspiration: Towards a Progressive Jammu and Kashmir

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Sports, Spiritual Legacy, and Youth Aspiration: Towards a Progressive Jammu and Kashmir

1 week ago

The Crisis of Reading, Research and Intellectual Culture in Jammu and Kashmir

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The Crisis of Reading, Research and Intellectual Culture in Jammu and Kashmir

1 week ago

The Forgotten Suffering of Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir: Power, Silence and the Human Cost of Impunity

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The Forgotten Suffering of Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir: Power, Silence and the Human Cost of Impunity

1 month ago

Oukhoo: The Village That Carved Its Own Economy

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Oukhoo: The Village That Carved Its Own Economy

2 months ago

Sensex Crashes 1,677 Points, Nifty Slumps Over 500 As Trump’s NATO Remarks Trigger Global Market Sell-Off

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Sensex Crashes 1,677 Points, Nifty Slumps Over 500 As Trump’s NATO Remarks Trigger Global Market Sell-Off

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From Gas to Grain: The Geopolitics of Nutrient Security

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From Gas to Grain: The Geopolitics of Nutrient Security

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Fruit Mandis of Kashmir: A Neo Stock Market

Fruit Mandis of Kashmir: A Neo Stock Market

2 months ago

Women, Work, and the State: Mapping Women’s Socioeconomic Mobility in Contemporary Jammu & Kashmir

Women, Work, and the State: Mapping Women’s Socioeconomic Mobility in Contemporary Jammu & Kashmir

Women, Work, and the State: Mapping Women’s Socioeconomic Mobility in Contemporary Jammu & Kashmir

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Kashmir’s Red Harvest

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Kashmir’s Red Harvest

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From Dry Winters to Broken Blossoms: Kashmir’s Water Crisis, Hailstorms and the Climate Signal in Horticulture

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From Dry Winters to Broken Blossoms: Kashmir’s Water Crisis, Hailstorms and the Climate Signal in Horticulture

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Under Changing Skies: Weather and Climate Uncertainty in Jammu and Kashmir

Under Changing Skies

Under Changing Skies: Weather and Climate Uncertainty in Jammu and Kashmir

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Women, Work, and the State: Mapping Women’s Socioeconomic Mobility in Contemporary Jammu & Kashmir

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Women, Work, and the State: Mapping Women’s Socioeconomic Mobility in Contemporary Jammu & Kashmir

Iqra Bhat (B.Sc. (Hons.) Zoology, Cluster University of Srinagar) “From the consciousness of woman emerge new ideas that enrich civilisation; Without woman, no enterprise,...

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Three-Tier Panchayat Elections in Abeyance: Oligarchy or Tyrannical Order?

Surinder Ambardar (Political Analyst) There is something profoundly paradoxical about the condition of democracy in Jammu and Kashmir today. The vocabulary of grassroots democracy...

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Sports, Spiritual Legacy, and Youth Aspiration: Towards a Progressive Jammu and Kashmir

Fasil Ali Dar (Padmashree Awardee) The Himalayan arc, stretching across northern India, has long stood as a geography of inspiration, asceticism, and endurance. Among...

reveiwing kashmir

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The Crisis of Reading, Research and Intellectual Culture in Jammu and Kashmir

Written by: Dr. Peerzada Muneer Jammu and Kashmir possesses one of the richest and most layered intellectual inheritances in the Indian subcontinent. Its...

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Rethinking Freedom at Eighty

By: Zahid Sultan ( Independent Researcher Based in Srinagar, India) There are anniversaries that invite celebration, and there are anniversaries that demand reflection. The...

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Rape, Power and the Refusal of the Other

Written by: Dr. Peerzada Muneer The recurrence of sexual violence in Kashmir and across India confronts society with a question far deeper than criminality...