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Irfan Amin Malik

ARTICLES BY IRFAN AMIN MALIK

A farmer checks his crops at a partially dried up paddy land, at Check Dara on the outskirts of Srinagar, Tuesday, June 24, 2025. Drought-like situation was witnessed in many parts of Kashmir valley due to shortage of water and early melting of snow in the mountains owing to intense heat. (PTI Photo)

Rice is running out of ground in a warming Kashmir

8 min read . 05 Jul 2025

The picturesque Gurez Valley near the Line of Control (LoC) in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district. (HT )

Pahalgam attack crushed Kashmir tourism. Amarnath Yatra could be a new start.

8 min read . 28 Jun 2025

Cherries being harvested from an orchard on the outskirts of Srinagar, Kashmir. (File Photo: Waseem Andrabi /Hindustan Times)

How Kashmir’s entire economy hinges on migrant workers who can vanish overnight

7 min read . 21 Jun 2025

According to the valley’s houseboat owners and some hoteliers, occupancy rates stood at around 80% before the attack. (HT)

Blanket of gloom over Kashmir's tourism landscape

4 min read . 23 Apr 2025

Flames and smoke rise from the Zabarwan hills during a forest fire in Srinagar, Kashmir, on 4 April 2025. (Photo: Hindustan Times)

A fire, a mushroom, and Kashmir's vanishing spring

6 min read . 05 Apr 2025

After two days of intermittent rains and snowfall, weather improved across Jammu and Kashmir on Friday bringing much relief from the drought-like conditions in the Himalayan valley. (Waseem Andrabi /HT)

Kashmir’s snowless winter sparks an unprecedented water crisis in the Valley

11 min read . 22 Feb 2025

The kangri, known locally as kanged or kangir, is a centuries-old traditional heater filled with charcoal embers, carried inside the pheran, a woollen cloak worn to combat the harsh cold. (Photo: Irfan Amin Malik)

Kashmir’s vanishing winter: How climate change threatens the kangri tradition

6 min read . 08 Feb 2025

A file photo of a local train arriving at Srinagar. The Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Railway Project will now connect the city to Delhi and the rest of India. (Mehraj Bhat)

Train to Kashmir: How the region’s first rail link will impact its key sectors

9 min read . 16 Jan 2025

Tourism contributes 8.47% of Jammu & Kashmir's GDP, according to government data.

Kashmir tourism is on thin ice amid a second straight snowless winter

5 min read . 28 Dec 2024

Zahoor Ahmad Reshi with his crop of Mushk Budji rice in Kulgam, Kashmir. (Photo: Irfan Amin Malik)

Can soil-less farming revive a Kashmiri rice variety on the verge of extinction?

4 min read . 02 Oct 2024

A bat manufacturing factory in Sangam, a village 46 km from Srinagar. (Irfan Amin Malik)

Death overs: After a century, Kashmir’s batmakers could be run out

10 min read . 07 Jul 2024

File photo of fresh saffron flowers farmers plucked in Pampore, Jammu and Kashmir. (Irfan Amin Malik)

Why Kashmir’s saffron growers are feeling blue

9 min read . 15 Feb 2024