Kashmir Life
Not just a Number
More than a hundred people who died in the summer unrest may just be statistics for the authorities but not for their families. Shams...
Playing to the gallery
The appointment of interlocutors, their Kashmir foray, and report to home minister, all seems to be an exercise in haste, to appear engaged as...
US Kashmir Policy: In Retrospect
Once interested in an overt role, US off late preferred a hands off approach, or at most a covert role in Indo-Pak tangles on...
Americans In Kashmir History
Admiral Chester W Nimitz
(February 24, 1885- February 20, 1966)
A five star admiral, Chester William Nimitz retired as US’s chief of naval operations (CNO) in...
Shadows of Past
The last time a US president visited India, 35 Sikhs were killed in a mysterious carnage in Kashmir. With another US president’s visit round...
Mission Al-Faraan
In the summer of 1995, a shadowy outfit abducted five Western tourists from Pahalgam. One killed, one escaped, and the fate of others remains shrouded in mystery since. Many credit the event for making a major shift in US policy on Kashmir. Maqbool Sahil narrates his rendezvous with the event.
For the love of their homeland
Scores of Kashmiris settled abroad are coming to the forefront, raising a voice for their native land. Almost every one of them is trying...
Kashmir in America
The second generation of around a 1000 Kashmiri American families feel more closer to their ancestral land and are making small efforts in their own way to help alleviate sufferings of their brethren. A Kashmir Life report.
Heard in the high offices
M Farooq Kathwari roped in diplomats, academics and intellectuals to study Kashmir and suggest ways to bring honourable peace to the strife-torn paradise. A Kashmir Life report.
Woman on Ground Zero
The efforts to build a mosque near 9/11 site has raised a controversy in the US. The endeavour has a Kashmir connection apart from the rage that the state witnessed after a pastor proposed to desecrate Quran to protest the construction of the mosque. A Kashmir Life report.
Remember you in Prayer
Mohsin Mohi Ud Din
I remember the horror and anger and helplessness I felt when my aunt, Icia, was murdered by security forces in...
Transformers
Come winter and the power transformers will be in huge demand. Owing to the voltage fluctuations and massive load for lighting and heating, the...
Bought and sold
for a few thousand rupees many women from poor families in West Bengal are married to poor or mostly disabled Kashmiri men. Most of...
KISHTWAR
For many decades of its existence, Adbi Markaz Kamraz has remained a perpetual address to part of the literature that Kashmir produced. Almost all...
Living Torture
The government has scuttled a bill aimed at preventing torture by police and punishing the perpetrators. Khursheed Wani analyses why the state is reluctant...
