The Gilgit Rebel
From Gilgit to Kupwara, Srinagar to Jammu and eventually from Muzaffarabad to London, Amanullah Khan Astori lived an eventful life to preach third-option for...
Bunker Belligerence
Razing of Handwara bunker apparently vindicated sections in the governance structure and civil society that improved situation should dictate reducing the footprints of counter-insurgency...
Terror Square
Twenty six years after Handwara witnessed the first blood, two youth became the latest casualty, triggering a new chain of protests and killings in...
Newsy Nine
Takeover by a new PDP-BJP government was extra-ordinary phenomenon. After three months of tense wait and intense interactions between the allies, the new government...
Captive Childhood
When a marriage falls apart it’s the children who become first casualty of the crisis. Away from the secrecy of living rooms, couples fight...
Touch-and-Go
In 2015, Mufti Sayeed took two months to negotiate a common minimum programme with BJP. Ten months later, his daughter spent a quarter in...
MUFfed
The rise of Muslim United Front (MUF) at the peak of a disconnect between Delhi and Srinagar led to unprecedented participation in the 1987...
Bomb Hunters
Historically, landmines have remained the lovely little things in fighters’ arsenals. In fact every conflict zone has its inventory of deaths and destruction that...
That Million March
Mass uprising coincided with the militant upsurge in 1990. It resurged after Gawkadal massacre thus paving way for twin massacres on March 1, when...
Incandescent Incubator
Concerns mounted as militants stormed the EDI’s Pampore complex initiating a 48-hour long gun-battle that consumed five security men, a civilian and three militants....
The Bravehearts
They were toddlers when Kunan tragedy became international news in 1991. Two decades later, five girls approached court and reopened the shut and closed...
A Grave Issue
Apparently to prevent mass gathering at militant funerals, security grid has abandoned the practice of transferring foreign militant corpses to residents for burial. Instead,...
Kashmir’s Nitasha
Her debut novel speaks a long tale of a lost identity and that was precisely why the jury at Man Asian Literary Prize found it...
Jagmohan Days
NDA government’s Padma Vibhushan to Jagmohan Malhotra pushed Kashmir back to his stint in the 1990s’, reliving the days and nights of horror and terror....
Jihadi Jaish
Prime Minister Modi’s unscheduled Lahore visit was the most dramatic turn in India-Pakistan bonhomie, so far. As the excited diplomats were moving to implement...
