Kashmir Life
Losing Identity
Old town Srinagar has for decades been a second home for many Dard-Shin inhabitants of Gurez. They have carved a niche for themselves here,...
Gone Dry
Fresh water springs, fed by the glacial melt, have sustained Kashmir for ages. But we have fast losing these life giving precious water bodies...
Panchal Never Felt Disconnected From Kashmir
Noted poet and scholar from Rajouri, Shahbaz Rajourvi, talks to Shams Irfan about his recent book Pounpir Gath, a collection of poems in Kashmiri,...
New Political Ampitheater
Even before the Mughal Road is completed, thousands take the route to cross Pir Panchal. Reopening it has triggered changes in the region that...
The Chargesheet
The Pathribal faked encounter is a case of conspiracies and lose ends revealed by the investigators in the army’s and initial police narratives. It...
Night at the Graveyard
Cemeteries across the valley witness an unprecedented rush during the night of Shab-e-Baraat. Bilal Handoo reports on this tradition of visiting the final resting...
Apple Cart to Panchal
The Mughal road may not be officially open yet, but it has already meant a huge deal to people in Kashmir valley, Poonch and...
Injustice and desperation
It has been more than 12 years since the victims of Pathribal faked encounter were laid to rest. But their charred bodies, identified after...
Loss and Anger
An eyewitness account of the devastating fire at Khanyar last Monday in which the shrine of Dastgeer Sahib was destroyed.
Early Monday morning Khanyar was...
The Revered Dastgeer Sahab
In the heart of Srinagar, the shrine of Dastgeer sahib withstood tests of time for more than two centuries. Kashmir has now lost this...
Neglecting The Essence
Kashmir has slowly been losing its essence - influences and heritage that inform its faith and culture - to callousness and exigencies of conflict...
Killer’s last decade
Serial killer, Major Avtar Singh could have neither fled India without government help nor lived in the US without the local sleuths looking the...
Number Games
While the proposed introduction of High Security Registration Plate System for vehicles will check car thefts to a large extent, the move threatens to...
A Chilling ‘Voice’
The kidnapping and murder of Jaleel Andrabi in 1996 pushed the High Court to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) for finding answers...
Trading Energy
J&K might live in energy misery for some more years but an emphasis over self-sufficiency and a sound potential has unlocked minds and opened...