Mehand Murders
Homes and properties getting up in smoke are not so uncommon in Kashmir. But blasting a home along with its inmates is something that people...
Braid Costs
As the mysterious hair-cutting of the womenfolk gets upgraded to a sort of epidemic, Kashmir is witnessing massive costs for its economy and the...
Grim Stories
Statistically, the crimes against women have gone down in last two years. But Saima Bhat reports tragic and heart wrenching instances are still making...
The Beggar I met
Next time you come across a young lady with disfigured face seeking alms, stop for a moment to listen to her woes. Zubair Sofi...
The Missing Mudasir?
When a junior engineer left her four-year-old kid home and jumped off the bridge at Zaina Kadal to commit suicide, it shocked everyone. Six...
A Major Death
When a young army major was brought out dead from her Bari Brahmana quarter, the story ended with the assertion that it was a...
A Pistol Thief
What is the extreme a thief can do in a conflict ridden place like Kashmir? Meet Deena, who literally vanished with an army officer’s...
Love, That Wasn’t?
The reluctant love marriage that recently ended with suspicious death of an English teacher of Srinagar seems to have an uncanny resemblance with a...
Poppy Pop Up
Marijuana is outdated. Now poppy cultivation is popular in Kashmir because it yields better, faster, is less labour intensive and has a niche market...
Bride Burners
The alarming trend in which families resort to kerosene and a match-stick instead of counselling, to manage conjugal discord, is worrisome. A society that...
Man Behind the Mask
Only an investigation will reveal if the Bandipora shootout that killed Altaf Dar, J&K Police’s larger than life investigator, was a chase or a...
Dream Chaser
He tried his hands at teaching and then working for the government, but there was something that kept him looking for more. Saima Rashid...
Ah, Set Afire
With conflict dominating the discourse, the ugly side of Kashmir’s routine is consigned to individual memory. To this was added a mother of two...
Driven to Death!
With an alarming rise in domestic violence cases women find themselves in a fix between reporting abuse and saving their marriages. Muntaha Hafizi reports...
An Addict’s Story
He started smoking for fun but once he landed in a college in Delhi things turned ugly. With drugs like cocaine and cannabis easily...
