Kashmir Life
Shooting In The Silence
Suffocated under indefinite curfew, four young students came together on the Facebook and evolved an idea of making a documentary video about an eight-year-old...
Separated By Politics
Illiteracy and poverty are a deadly mix that makes people easy prey for politicians. In Sonawari, Majid Maqbool meets an aged couple whose marriage...
Raw Courage
Last month when a cloudburst nearly swept away three people including two children in Tral, a gallant young man jumped into trouble saving their...
Big Repora Grapes
Besides Italy, Repora village in Kashmir is perhaps the only place in the world where fresh grapes are available. And, this Kashmiri grape is...
‘It is God’s Grace’
In 2007 when Americans refused separatist Syed Ali Geelani a visa because of his alleged contacts with militants, and being opposed to the then...
Stress And Suspended Lives
Women in Kashmir are the worst sufferers of conflict. Experts say women generally have less tolerance for trauma. Some Kashmiri women have devised their...
Grassroots Failure?
Panchayt elections were meant to be an international political statement as well as an exercise to experiment democracy at the grassroots level. Just a...
Grave Rejoinders
The SHRC recommended employment of available scientific methods to ascertain identification of dead bodies interred in unmarked and mass graves its investigation team confirmed...
A Proud Daughter
Shazia Rasool has made her parents proud by securing 40th rank in the recently held KAS exam. She shares her success story with Kashmir...
Visa Power
The US visa regime is grilling and sometimes problematic for some, but hundreds of Kashmiris visit America every year. The leaked US embassy confidential...
What happens at Pugwash?
Pugwash has always been a closed door affair since it first started to host voices from India, Pakistan and Kashmir at different venues across...
Filthy Game
US diplomatic cables revealed by Wikileaks unveiled many hidden aspects related to the politics around Kashmir and intermittent dialogue between different stakeholders. These cables...
Matching Concerns
Cables related to security concerns as viewed by the US embassy in New Delhi reveal that the American concerns matched those India publicly harped on....
Kashmiris First, Kashmir Later
Facilitating people to people contact between two parts of divided Kashmir is a part of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh’s vision of a ‘soft...
Leaking Diplomacy
That it is a huge embarrassment for the State Department is an old story. The US cables leaked by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, apart...
