An ‘Encounter’
Hours before the security grid declared the Hyderpora ‘encounter’ over, a couple of tweets by a slain builder’s relative pushed Kashmir to an edge,...
A Carnage Closure
As the troops are battling an elusive group of fugitives in dense Poonch forests for the third week, curtains fell on the Nadimarg massacre...
Labour Pains
A series of civilian killings including five non-native workers have pushed Kashmir into a credibility crisis and an economic mess at the same time...
Disquiet In Medical Schools
With authorities opening a section of graduate and half of the postgraduate medical education berths to an All India Quota, most of the medical...
Fighting Fear
The killing of four non-Muslim civilians triggered a wave of insecurity sending some of the Kashmiri Pandits who had returned to Kashmir under an...
Fear, Insecurity
Civilians have remained the main collateral damage of the three decades of turmoil. Amid restoration of peace claims when a series of selective killings...
Wrecked Families
Behind the desperation at the official and societal level for halting the spread of Covid19 and deny any space to the third wave, are...
Reviving An Art
Caught by immobility dictated by situation and pandemic, a number of girls started reviving the forgotten art of calligraphy and some of them were...
Ancient Futures
A social entrepreneur has created a facility on Sindh foothills with a focus on reviving the traditional culture and lifestyle in twentieth-century Kashmir. Apart...
A Quiet Burial
Tahir Bhat records Syed Ali Geelani’s journey from the banks of Wullar lake to the streets of Lal chowk coincided as it did with his ideological...
Offering Blood
Shocked by the death of an infant for not getting blood donation in time, a school teacher created an informal network of blood donors...
The Kabul Spillover?
Security experts are divided over the possible impact of the Kabul situation on Kashmir. But the dramatic Taliban triumph has altered the region’s geopolitics,...
The New Conflict
For a varied set of factors, the wildlife, mostly bear and leopard, are moving out of the forests frequently and have added a new...
Kashmir’s Rural Diversity
For a modern researcher, the Kashmir periphery might offer homogeneity of culture and economy. The reality is that the countryside has always exhibited a...
Two Years Later
The second anniversary of the reading down of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir indicated clearly that people and politics living on either...
