The HairLooms
At a time when braid choppers have triggered a sort of crisis, Saima Bhat moved out to cover a story never touched before. She...
Malwan’s Braid Choppers
Mysterious hair cutting incidents started in central India early this year and literally followed the road to Kashmir. Restricted to restive South Kashmir, Kulgam...
Surviving A Genocide
The perilous journey of Rohingya Muslims from hostile Burma to Kashmir is literally drenched in blood. Two Kashmiri journalists offer an idea of how...
Pellet Debts
After their youngest son was hit by pellets at the peak of 2016 unrest, Rasheed and Wazira Sheikh borrowed a lot of money from...
Reso-Nation
As strife created gulf for expression for pain and despair, the feeble movement of turmoil art took over. Soon the internet as the vast...
Brothers in Dark
After they were blinded in 2016 summer, they struggled in hospitals to manage their vision but failed. Then they survived on the sympathy, kind...
Guru’s Last Days
Congress government exercised so haste that Tihar jail failed even in arranging a professional hangman to work the gallows for hanging Afzal Guru. TV...
Distorting Srinagar?
As Srinagar is inching towards becoming a Smart City with emphasis on heritage and tourism, a revised Master Plan has drawn a sketch of...
35A vs Ethnic Flooding?
Cutting across the ideological divide, political parties in Kashmir have found a common cause in Article 35(A) of the Constitution of India that right-wingers...
Close Encounters
News of death and destruction are apparently the only two by-products of a gun battle between rebels and the army. One encounter paves way...
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...
