The Silken Knot
Vested interest, negative policy interventions, market shifts and nature intervened in the unmaking of the world’s biggest silk factory in Kashmir. As cocoon production...
Nowhatta Nightmare
Every time Kashmir is on protest, areas surrounding the historic Jamia Masjid are under curfew. Once restrictions are over, tensions pile up making police...
Deadly divide
Separated in birth by a year and in death by 6 kms, sub inspector Feroz Dar and rebel commander Bashir Lashkari belonged to two...
A year after Burhan
The guerrilla group that Burhan Wani gave birth to is a completely different entity by way of evolution and operation. This generation has changed...
Dehumanised Kashmir
The lynching of Ayub Pandith, a Jammu and Kashmir police officer, has further divided Kashmir’s conflict-torn society. Pandith’s murder was barbaric but it was...
Radiating Carcinogens?
As Wazwan country plans massive wedding feasts - a yearly Rs 1879 crore economy, there are concerns about the source of millions of sheep...
The Missing Mudasir?
When a junior engineer left her four-year-old kid home and jumped off the bridge at Zaina Kadal to commit suicide, it shocked everyone. Six...
Minor Militants
The latest of the juvenile rebels killed in an encounter was only 15 years of age. He was neither the first to fall to...
A Militant’s Mother
When a rebel is killed, the loss and celebration on the two sides of the ideological divide is the routine. But what happens to the...
Risky Job
The debate over Gogoi gets louder after his ‘human shield’ act fetched him an award. Saima Bhat looks at the other side of the...
The Ghost Village
Continued turmoil did not trigger massive demographic upheavals and migrations alone. Jibran Nazir located a village in Kupwara that ceased to exist because population...
Staring at Death
A killer disease is silently engulfing large tracts of population in south Kashmir with serious socio-economic fall-outs. Aakash Hassan reports the affliction and the...
Rural Remilitarisation
After unprecedented poll cancellation, the government is still clueless about how to halt the slide that could push Kashmir into yet another crisis. The...
Human Shields
After a mobile user recorded a few seconds of footage showing soldiers using a Shawl weaver as a human shield, moments after he cast...
Volcanic Verdict
Unprecedented since 1951, the first recorded election, the poll, re-poll and the postponement in Kashmir bypolls is the newest protest that cannot become a...
