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...
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...
