Silencing Sailan
Terrified by a threat, 22 men, women and children of an extended family huddled together to save their skin in the summer of 1998....
Gen(e)ocide
For strife-ridden Kashmir, surviving on stress, chicken and mutton and staying limited to hearths and homes, has emerged just a way of life. Slowly...
War Woes
TV suggests that India and Pakistan stand on brink of another war. Even Kashmir is thick with battle talk. War means disaster. Bilal Handoo...
In Maqbool Bhat’s Trehgam
For the last 30 years, Kashmir has been freezing life to remember Maqbool Bhat, the man who was born out of his execution in...
Fierce Face-off
In the aftermath of the horrific car bomb explosion, India availed the extreme option of getting deep into Pakistan for a hit. Pakistan retaliated...
The Kashmir Spillover?
As protests, sloganeering, stone pelting surfaced on mainland India streets, Kashmir’s Standard Operations Procedure (SOP) was literally in vogue with arrests, firing, internet ban...
Spiced Up, Finally
After investing almost Rs 450 crore in the last decade in pre and post-harvest, Kashmir’s saffron fields in Pampore are smiling over the purple...
Semthan Secrets
Located between the highway and Jhelum is Bijbehara’s Semthan. Home to a cluster of archaeological ruins, it is Kashmir’s only spot where humans’ have...
Kashmir: First Land Settlement
Two years after the British "took over" the governance of Jammu and Kashmir and appointed Sir Oliver St John, the first British Resident on...
The Last Lot?
Jammu Kashmir history’s most financially empowered Panchayat, elected in a challenging situation in 2018 amid boycott and threats, is completing its term in early...
Hand That Shakes
Congress’s association with Kashmir dates back to the 1930s. Using power as a lever afte Congress’s association with Kashmir dates back to the 1930s....
Mufti’s Last Gamble?
After giving PDP the highest ever seats in a hung house, nobody knows why there is inordinate delay in setting up of a government...
Forgotten Dispatches
France’s ‘botanical romantic’ Victor Vincelas Jacquemont (1801-1832) spent 1831 summer in Kashmir at the peak of exploitative Sikh misrule. Letters, he sent home from...
Cashmere in Dubai
Hundreds of Kashmiris toiled hard in Middle East’s coastal desert to become part of Dubai’s golden-glass growth story. Belatedly, they started following other expat...
Spy Statements
A journalist had a series of joint interviews with A S Dulat, former RAW chief and Assad Durrani, who headed ISI in 1990, and...
