Room for Improvement

Srinagar is among the dirtiest cities among the world – rivalling those in sub-sahara region of Africa – because of its incapability to handle municipal waste. Here is an idea Managing Garbage Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) can learn from Hyderabad...

Paying a Heavy Price

Kashmiris are paying a high price for ecological destruction, while bureacracy created to protect environment has its focus elsewhere Largest Fresh Water Lake Shrinking Iftikhar Ashraf/ Shafat Farooq (Kashmir Monitor) Bandipora: Wullar Lake also known as Asia’s...

A Pioneering Effort

Ashraf describes the opening of a new hotel that could be the first new step in attracting high end tourists to Kashmir (Mr. Mohammad Ashraf, 69, was born and raised in Srinagar. He attended the S.P. High School and the S.P College before joining the Regional...

Preserving Kashmir’s Architectural Legacy

Iqbal dwells on Kashmir’s architectural heritage (Mr. Iqbal Ahmad, 51, was born in Parigam Chek, Kulgam. He is a graduate with Diploma in Numastics, Archaeology and Heritage. He is an archaeologist, writer, and a cultural historian. Mr. Iqbal Ahmad has published...

Demand For Better Education

Naveed pitches for giving students the most important asset in their development (Mr. Naveed Qazi, 23, did his schooling from Burn Hall School and Tyndale Biscoe, and eventually graduated in Commerce from the University of Kashmir. Naveed is a blogger and activist...