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For centuries, Srinagar - the City of Kashmir, has been popular as the 'City of Bridges'. In 2023 summer, Iqra Akhoon, Kashmir's most known broadcast journalist and a Producer at Kashmir Life decided to redicover the history of these bridges and record the life of the people living around. This led to the making of a 13-episode web series. This long write-up is her first hand account of the challenges that the series posed and how she tackled and made it happen.
Chatlam Wetland, located in Kashmir's Pampore area, is an overlooked ecological gem with great potential for eco-tourism. Local youth activists have been working tirelessly to protect and promote the wetland. Despite threats like hunting and urbaniaation, dedicated youths strive to preserve the wetland's fragile ecosystem. With its diverse bird species and pristine environment, Chatlam has the ingredients to become a sustainable sanctuary and a bird-watching destination, aligning with the principles of eco-tourism. Efforts are being made to raise awareness and ensure its conservation for future generations.
With government focus on cheap medicines and doctors apparently supporting branded preparations, an ‘unwell’Kashmir, an otherwise huge pharmaceutical market, is gradually making generic medicines mainstream, reports Hashim Zakir Yawar, 22, suffering from depression and schizophrenia, experience.