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The Land under Survey
Nazir Ahmad stands at the edge of his orchard in Kunsoo village, Shopian. Speaking to FairPlanet, he keeps his eyes fixed on the ground as if the land itself has begun to slip away. An elderly farmer with a weathered face, he struggles to speak. When he does, his voice breaks-not into loud sobs, but into quiet, restrained cries that seem heavier than tea...
Yet in a small number of places, new pumps powered by the sun rather than diesel have begun to hum again, offering not abundance, but continuity.
With the collapse of formal supply systems, water collection has increasingly shifted to the household. What once flowed through communal taps is now carried by hand, measured in plastic jerrycans and daily trips to increasin...
By 7 a.m., First Avenue in Eastleigh is already awake. Metal shutters roll up. Porters stack bales of fabric outside wholesale shops. The smell of cardamom tea drifts from cafés where traders scan phones for exchange rates before the day begins.
Amina Hassan stands in the doorway of her textile shop, counting newly arrived boxes from the Gulf. She has run this business...
The Indian government rehabilitated the Tibetan refugees across the country, building separate settlements for them. The Dalai Lama and his cabinet would go on to establish an independent administrative framework in India, headquartered in Dharamshala, an autonomous government that was denied to them by China in their own homeland.
Bylakuppe, a remote rural region in ...
On 26 December 2025, Israel became the first country in the world to formally recognise the breakaway state of Somaliland as an independent and sovereign state. Although Somaliland has operated as a de facto state with its own institutions, passport, currency, security forces...