Shams Irfan

Arshid Malik
When we were kids, we used to be “sitting ducks” for a bowlful of horror stories that were scary enough to make us pee in our pants. This very bouquet of ghost stories stayed rolled up the sleeve of elder siblings, parents and grandparents elementally narrated in times of dire need, which is when we got really naughty. These home-churned “Tales of the Crypt” were melodramatically enhanced by all kinds of sounds, humanly manageable, and eerie grunts and groans until the script really crept up your limbs like vicious little arachnids.

If there is something that has remained elusive to Kashmir throughout its history, it is the idea of unity. The divisions and subdivisions that emerged

Ibrahim Wani
He considered suicide as the only option available to him. For the last time he fed his ailing grandfather, and then hanged himself. In another case, a boy talked to his mother for the last time. And then he just wrote a suicide note before hanging himself.

The death sentence to two Kashmiris in Lajpat Nagar bomb blast case has reignited protest activities in Kashmir even creating talk of unity in the