Quietly Unwilling
Understanding the costs that negotiating any kind of deal can have, Sangh Parivaar is resisting pressure from the political class in Delhi to engage...
Robust Rhetoric
As Kashmir entered into the second month of crisis at exorbitant costs to its overall well-being, the governments in Srinagar and Delhi are yet...
Calmly Clueless?
With Kashmir’s grave crisis already into second month at an exorbitant cost, the government is waiting its Delhi ally to give it a confidence...
Smouldering Summer
Six years after 2010 summer triggered Kashmir’s new age militancy, killing of a young rebel stirred up another summer of dissenting and bloodletting. With...
Painful Pellets
After being inducted as the non-lethal crowd-controller at the peak of 2010 mayhem, pellet guns started scripting a new age misery that is now...
Being Burhan
In the new age Kashmir, even rebellion needs icons. But the rise of Tral’s sober son in the virtual world was meteoric, surprising and...
A Brewing Success
Indelible impressions of a picture postcard took her two decades to rediscover the British village and felt inspired in bringing the Tea Party home....
Compromise #1?
Ruling PDP accommodated miner lawmakers of its partner to block non-locals in mining sector. A day later, it faced an embarrassing situation when the...
Depressed Dangerously
Fast life, career rat race, destabilized families and the conflict have created such a mess of Kashmir’s mind that melancholy has become the new...
Sitting On A Massacre?
Every time streets are tense, people within and outside government revive memories of 2010 summer. But the families of youth whom civil unrest devoured...
Inside Islamabad
Chief Minister Ms Mehbooba Mufti is heading for election from her father’s Islamabad assembly seat later this month. The place has changed many masters...
The Groundbreakers
After creating its own identity in the situation that engulfed Kashmir in recent past, Sonawari belt suffered silently under an exploitative broker rule pushing...
Next Tosamaidan?
After winding up its half-a-century-old gory shell-campaign at Tosamaidan in 2014, army is exploring alternative area. Bajpathri, the fascinating meadow between Pulwama, Budgam and...
Charar After Mast Gul
When the Frontier fighter Mast Gul descended down from peaks with his group for a winter sojourn to the revered Chrar-e-Sharief, it led to...
Garrison, My Home
Life changes its details once the home relocates. It sounds completely different when new situation surrounds the home. Shams Irfan meets a group of...
