Walnut Falls
Farmers, businessmen and politicians exhibit no difference when they start counting the foreign exchange earnings, almost stagnant for the last few years. Muhammad Younis...
Blood, Boycott, Democracy
In a bid to see democracy restored at ground zero, Delhi skipped concerns of Kashmir’s two main political parties and ignored an overwhelming situation,...
Decimated By Drugs
Talking about drug abuse is the new fashion statement of the socio-political elite, media and academia. The menace has reached a level that now...
Wounded Womb
Regardless of peace and war, mothers are naturally emotional beings, neutral to every other thing around. What happens when a mother loses a son?...
Design Diva
In the nineteenth century, the hungry exploited and perpetually persecuted Kashmir artisans would remotely control the fashion streets of Paris. In the twenty-first century,...
A Neglected Spark
As people were anxiously waiting for the fate of Article 35(A), dramatic developments in Kashmir’s ‘war-theatre’, down south, overtook everything. Amid a few fires...
The Other Side of Pain
Killings are painful and shattering for everybody regardless of the politics and profession. On the day of Eid, three cops were killed and two...
‘Abrogating Article 35(A) Will Trigger Constitutional Chaos’
As a Supreme Court bench is scheduled to decide the fate of petitions challenging the special constitutional provisions which protects the identity of Jammu...
When NC Ceased To Exist
If BJP undoes its erstwhile ally, the PDP in Kashmir, it may not be happening for the first time. A year after the Delhi...
Summer Slaughter
The residents in Pazipora still tremble and fret with the memories of August 10, 1990 shooting, that killed 26 civilians in a few minutes
The Cricketer and Kashmir
Cricketer Imran Khan is scheduled to takeover as the Prime Minister of Pakistan on August 11. He is the first Pakistani politician who is...
Pledging Publicly
When 105 brides and grooms assembled in a city club for taking marriage vows under one roof in mid-July, it was Kashmir’s first mass...
A Withered Witness
Witness to the ups and downs in Shehr-e-Khas, Siddiq Sodaghar remembers all events between the Nala Mar filling to the worst of Sher-Bakra feud....
School of Defection
With assembly active and no government in place, various politicians are attempting to get power and are keenly exploring the possible loopholes in state’s...
The FallOut
The BJPDP’s ‘Rainbow Alliance’ that was supposed to mend polar differences in politics; geography and ideology finally witnessed a shockingly humiliating fall that commoners...
