Overtaken
In 1994, an auto driver was beaten by cops. More than two decades later, he is literally paralysed and even lacks control over his...
Close Encounters
News of death and destruction are apparently the only two by-products of a gun battle between rebels and the army. One encounter paves way...
Phishing Trouble
With most of militancy and hate hatching in virtual Kashmir, member of security grid have started physical check of the cell phone young men...
Nowhatta Nightmare
Every time Kashmir is on protest, areas surrounding the historic Jamia Masjid are under curfew. Once restrictions are over, tensions pile up making police...
Post Pellets
What happened to those blinded by controversial hunter guns post Burhan Wani’s killing last summer? Tabish Rafiq Mir visits a few survivors to see...
Is it morning?
It is everyday struggle for pellet victims who lost their eyesight completely in summer 2016. Confined to dark rooms they wait for divine intervention...
Dehumanised Kashmir
The lynching of Ayub Pandith, a Jammu and Kashmir police officer, has further divided Kashmir’s conflict-torn society. Pandith’s murder was barbaric but it was...
Unending pain
The creation of counter-insurgency grid during 90s forced thousands of families into self-exile. But there were a few families who lost lot more than...
Minor’s Virtual Crusade
Watching her immobile grandfather reconciled to the defeat in getting killers of his son to justice, a minor girl opens a Facebook page to...
Shielded Crudely
After world reacted adversly to what a young Major did to a voter by making him a human shield and parading him for 28...
Risky Job
The debate over Gogoi gets louder after his ‘human shield’ act fetched him an award. Saima Bhat looks at the other side of the...
The Ghost Village
Continued turmoil did not trigger massive demographic upheavals and migrations alone. Jibran Nazir located a village in Kupwara that ceased to exist because population...
“I do not believe internet restrictions are consistent with human rights law obligations of...
United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression David Kaye, recently termed internet ban in Kashmir as collective punishment. In a Skype...
A Tragic Life
After a young singer was released from detention by army during 90s, he confined himself to his room and took solace in drugs. Now...
Human Shields
After a mobile user recorded a few seconds of footage showing soldiers using a Shawl weaver as a human shield, moments after he cast...