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...
Smouldering Shopian
The smallest district in J&K but one of the most prosperous ones, Shopian has gone twice into mass mournings this year. After the six...
Kinetic Khan
After being the longest-serving chief executive of J&K Bank and making it state’s first and the only listed company, Muhammad Yousuf Khan, the man...
Scholar with a gun
When Lolab’s Mannan Wani drove from AMU to join rebels, everybody within and outside the security grid started asking: “Why did an AMU scholar...
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...
Shot In Shopian
A brief gun-battle triggered a chain of events that consumed seven lives including two young men who joined militancy in different situations, as two...
Managing 1947 Mayhem
After the erstwhile J&K state was sliced into two halves amid massive demographic upheavals, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was the...
Two Bullets, One Tragedy
The two boys were neighbours who would play volleyball on two sides of the net. Eventually one landed in police and another in private...
Erasing A Village
The roaring Neelum river on the banks of which once lived a village eventually separated them forever. Then a new situation reunited the two...
Lineage of Dissent
A series of studies commissioned to understand various genetic disorders revealed stunning realities that genetically Kashmir gene pool is hugely closer to Turkish, Iranian...
Militant friends in Ikhwan Town
Amid a raging debate over how Hajin, the fountainhead of erstwhile ruthless counter-insurgency, became militancy’s posh address, Shams Irfan spent days in the belt...
