Kashmir Life
Guru Letters: A Wife’s Appeal
This letter was written by Tabassum, Afzal Guru’s wife. It was initially published by the Kashmir Times and later reproduced by the Asian Age...
BRIEFING
DHAKA
Bangladesh, otherwise known for its apparel market, will get it 60 experts in Kashmiri embroidery. After illegally crossing into the state, they were in...
NEWSNOTES
The SITUATION
AS the people in Kashmir Valley woke up on Saturday morning, the social networking sites were abuzz with rumors about the hanging of...
Guru Letters: To His Lawyer Sushil Kumar
This is perhaps one of the most detailed letters that executed parliament attack convict Afzal Guru wrote to his lawyer Sushil Kumar who represented...
Guru Letters: To All India Defence Committee for SAR Geelani
This letter written on January 26, 2004 offers the crisis that the executed Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was facing in the trial court....
Numbers
In the just concluded auction, 23 lots of Padder Sapphire worth Rs 42 lakh was sold in two days.
State’s Power Development Corporation registered a...
History In Shambles
Set up to preserve the cultural heritage under Dogra regime, Srinagar’s Sri Pratap Singh Museum is nowadays lying in shambles. Not only are the...
The Marginalized People
One of the most exotic spots in Srinagar, Mir Bahri locality whose history dates back to the time of Mughals in Kashmir is battling...
Trail of Errors
Civil rights body ‘Peoples Union for Democratic Rights’ watched and analyzed the 2001 Parliament Attack trial in court to suggest that the accused were...
Sounds of Pain
TARIQUE A BHAT
What just happened? Who saw what? Was it really not what it looked like? What was it like? Some emotions are just...
A Grave Error
After staying in news for more than a decade, the medical college drop-out Afzal Guru was finally hanged. Once interred in grave within the...
A Costly Operation
Within days after the 2001 Parliament Attack, more than half a million soldiers were mobilized on Indo-Pak border under Operation Parakram. While it cost...
With Grieving Gurus’
Temporarily inaccessible for law and order reasons, Sameer Yasir opted a crisscross trek to reach the tiny Mazbug, home of Afzal Guru to understand...
Kashmir’s Own 9/11
As unionists and pro-freedom leaders have come together to echo fears of political radicalisation among the youth, there is little doubt that the decision...
A Jail Story
Knowing that he was going to meet his creator very soon, Afzal had resigned to fate and turned to religion inside Tihar jail. As...
