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Kashmir Life

BURIAL OF A MURDER

At the peak of Amarnath land row in 2008, a trucker’s murder provoked the historic long march ‘Muzaffarabad Chalo’ for neutralizing impact of an...

Twenty Years After

Last week, the SHRC recommended a fresh investigation into Kunan mass rapes and compensation for the victims passing serious strictures against the investigators. Mudasir...

Ability Amplified

At first glance, Javed Tak would seem like a man with a disability, a man who has resigned himself to a life of pity...

Google searching Kashmir

A high ranking team from Google, invited by Mercy Corps is coming to Kashmir to share entrepreneurial and digital skills. Tasavur Mushtaq reports Kashmir is often...

‘Deceit’ of Dialogue

New Delhi has often responded to political crises in Kashmir by renewing official and track-II dialogue with separatists. This approach slowly graduated from arbitrary...

Plundering Heritage And Future

Famous Saffron fields of Kashmir have been under an onslaught. Shams Irfan investigates the archaeological diversity hidden underneath the spice fields, and their shocking fate. As soon as...

Handshake Under Pir Panchal

As Railways blasts through the Pir Panchal mountain range to create India’s longest tunnel, Banihal will be accessible to Baramulla in less than 90...

‘Framed’ By Paying Guest

A medical student from Kishtwar studying in Bangladesh, Wasim is suspected of involvement in the Delhi High Court blast. He and his family have...

A Tradition Survives

The ‘bribe for berth’ case involving Kashmir’s first family is nothing new. It is just a standard practice of how politics has operated here...

Stuck In Stone

Foundation stones have become a norm for formalizing small and big development projects in Kashmir today. Abdul Mohamin reports on what takes place behind...

Mission Interlocutors’ Report

After a yearlong exercise of interacting with ‘all shades of opinion’ in Jammu and Kashmir, the three interlocutors employed by New Delhi in the...

10 Questions For The Chief Minister

Senior opposition leader and former deputy chief minster, Muzaffar Hussain Baig poses ten questions to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. As told to IKHLAQ QADRI,...

Mosques First, Schools Later

years after a devastating earthquake flattened a vast area straddling the LoC, Sameer Yasir spent a day in Uri to understand that the area...

Business Of Tear Smoke

In the recent years of unrest, young Kashmiris were often found on the frontlines, pelting stones in protest. But as Mukeet Akmali reports, three...

Kashmir Under Dogs

In the past decade there has been an alarming increase in the rabies carrying stray dog population in Kashmir. Correspondingly, more than a hundred...