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There is a particular indignity in being asked to perform the work of an academic while being treated as though one merely occupies a temporary space in an institution. In Jammu and Kashmir’s government colleges, lecturers engaged in Academic Arrangement teach, prepare students, evaluate their work and sustain the intellectual life of the institution. Yet the terms of engagement communicate another message: their labour is necessary, but their professional existence is provisional. This is not an administrative inconvenience. It is a structural feature of a system that has normalised the use…

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Unemployment among educated youth has become one of the major challenges facing Jammu and Kashmir. Every year, thousands of young people complete their degrees, diplomas and professional courses, but a considerable number of them struggle to find suitable employment. Many possess good academic qualifications, yet their education does not always match the requirements of the present job market. The problem needs to be addressed through proper planning, scientific assessment and coordinated action rather than through occasional employment announcements and schemes. The first requirement is to…

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The activities that contribute to Kashmir’s economy, and sustain a vast portion of population, are know to us all. Among these activities sheep farming has attained a significance that, in certain respects, is matched by none. It is an organic activity that gels with the natural scheme of things in the valley. We have the meadows hosting herbs and grasses that feed sheep in the most healthy manner. We have Kahcharai lands in the length and breadth of the valley, though for many years now it is shrinking. We have a section of population that has an expertise of generations in this form of…

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