The Shujaat, You Do Not Know
Kashmir lost Shujaat Bukhari, one of its most prominent journalists to a brutal attack virtually on the eve of Eid. Masood Hussain who had...
Sheikh-ul-Aalam: A Rediscovery
In the last 500 years, most of the literature produced about the movement that Sheikh Nooruddin Noorani led in medieval Kashmir is shrouded in...
A Trojan In Hajin
A series of brutal killings by unknown gunmen have frightened the region that was source of scare to most of Kashmir at one point...
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...
The New Outcasts?
Dramatic turns and twists at ground zero have squeezed the space for middle-rung workers of unionist political parties, forcing police to set up a...
Islam’s First Kashmir Address
Islam existed in Kashmir even 200 years before Kalhana wrote his Rajatarangni. But the immigrants who would come as mercenaries and traders would mostly...
Last 40 Hours
Nobody knows exactly, the details of Dr Rafi’s last forty hours, till he was located besieged in a Shopian village, alongside top Hizb rebels....
Lonely Battles
Every time a militant falls, thousands of people join the funeral prayers. Once he is lowered into the grave, the story ends. In order...
Plastic Millionaires
The ever-increasing consumption is massively throwing heaps of plastic, iron and paper packaging almost everywhere in urban and peripheral Kashmir. It is a huge...
Men in Khaki
In the backdrop of Kathua kidnapping, rape and murder of little Rasana girl, certain sections of society in J&K are raising fingers towards the...
The Rasana Tragedy
In the gut-wrenching trail of the kidnapping, gang-rape and murder of the minor Bakerwal girl from Kathua, the most heinous was the motive. The...
That Bloody Sunday
As Shopian killings paralysed Kashmir for almost a week, yet again, Umar Mukhtar spent crisis-time down south in locating and meeting the families of...
Understanding Stake-holding
It is very difficult to decipher why there are lot many political parties in Kashmir. But it is quite easy to link the proliferation...
The Next Geelani
With a frail Syed Ali Geelani passing the baton of his party to his longtime friend and follower Ashraf Sehrai, the talk in the...
Cracked House
From the alliance architect in 2014 to the sacked minister, three years later, Haseeb Drabu’s status downgrade tells a longer story about the mess...
