Kashmir Life

Caught Within

With Delhi unmoved on almost every front, the situation is gradually getting explosive in Kashmir. Tasavur Mushtaq details how the BJP ally in Kashmir...

Polling again?

By: Khursheed Wani Romantic poets have been fascinated by the fragrance of flowers, riot of colours and the darling buds of May. When conflict overtakes...

Barrier to Cross

A last minute back-out from state officials left a budding skier’s future in a limbo. Aabid Hussain tells his story Ehtisham Fayaz Khan, 20, was...

Bharat Bhushan Vyas

As the Cabinet met on Friday in Jammu, chaired by Chief Minster Mehbooba Mufti, it was a major reshuffle in the administrative department of...

Framed?

When Jammu Chamber issued threats to UNHCR registered Rohangya refugees, they had misread some information that pertained to a juice seller. Syed Junaid Hashmi...

Cow Concerns

After police was forced to act against right wing cow vigilantes, a situation was created in Muslim majority Reasi’s main town that they were...

Gravel Girls

Gravel Girls Kashmir’s feminine face has symbolised tragedies and travails since Cashmere days. It was quite a sensation in the West when travellers reported tons...

Fear and Exile

The killing of a senior party worker literally sent PDP foot-soldiers looking for save heavens outside south Kashmir. Suhail A Shah reports what it...

Cancellation of South Kashmir By-Polls Order

Election Commission of India has finally canceled the South Kashmir by-poll. The order issued late in the night on May 1, 2017 gives a detailed...

Virtual Wars

This past week Kashmir remained on the edge after half-a-dozen videos of atrocities surfaced online. Aakash Hassan reports how mobile phones are changing the...

A deadly Change

After witnessing the killing of a teenager who was part of post Handwara molestation protests, Azhar Khan, a promising school teacher took to guns...

Discordant Tones

Two years after the BJP and PDP entered into polar alliance, nothing much has moved on the Kashmir front. After 2016 unrest and recent...

Box Cameras to Selfies

They have witnessed Kashmir’s changing fortunes through their camera lenses for about five decades. Nazir Ahmad Rather talks to two ace photographers who still...

Briefing

NAWAKADAL hotographs deployed in crisis situations often become news. The last one was Kavin Carter who had clicked that world famous picture of how a...

Campus Reacts

As Kashmir was limping to normalcy after bullets mixed with ballot during daylong by-poll, a police raid in a south Kashmir college triggered sort...