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Athar Parvaiz

Southern Asia
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Covers:  Environment, Science, health, gender, culture and politics
Doesn't Cover: Sports

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Athar Parvaiz is an independent journalist based in Srinagar-Kashmir and travels across south Asia for reporting assignments. He writes extensively about environment, health, wildlife, science and culture. He tweets @AtharParvaiz

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Rabies vaccines offer relief as Indian Kashmir grapples with dog bites

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By Athar Parvaiz
| Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
At a glance Jammu and Kashmir has recorded almost 213,000 dog bites since 2022. As India still remains the global epicentre of dog-mediated human rabies, each one of those injuries has needed to be regarded as a potential exposure In the absence of vaccination, rabies is almost 100 percent fatal. Fortunately, the people of Jammu and Kashmir are well informed that post-exposure prophylaxis, a protocol which includes several doses of the vaccine, is a must following a bite or scratch.
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Amid rising heat and missing snow, Kashmir is racing to adapt

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By Athar Parvaiz
| Down To Earth Verified
Three women walk through the heavily concretised Ghanta Ghar area in Srinagar city, where the lack of trees and green cover reflects the city’s growing preference for concrete over climate-resilient public spaces. Photo: Athar Parvaiz At dusk on June 29, I noticed a middle-aged man sitting on the roof of his rickety single-storey house in a Srinagar suburb. As I walked past, I looked up and asked if the heat had driven him there.
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Rising heat makes cool Kashmir history

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By Athar Parvaiz
| Question of Cities
For the past couple of years, Jameela Akhtar, 34 and mother of two little children living in Srinagar’s Bemina area, has complained about increased heat in summer. Last year, the family tried using thermocol sheets on their tin roof but it did not help. Her husband, Mehran Ahmad, 38, was willing to spend Rs 15,000 to have the roof insulated because “it became very difficult and unbearable to sleep in these rooms during summer”.
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