Women in woods
Wazwan country surely knows the grammar and the complicacies that go into the making of the feast but not the costs mutton production entails...
Distinctly 75
J&K’s only listed company, the Rs 100000 crore plus turnover J&K Bank turned 75 last week. While it has been at the core of...
Historic Exposé
As an unhappy soldier feeling pushed to the wall spilled beans, it helped Kashmir understand its contemporary history better. R S Gull revisits the...
An Orchard of Graves
It started with the burial of his son in the orchard that was supposed to grow apple and bring prosperity. As years passed by,...
Certified Innocence
A firing incident almost coinciding with the Zubin Mehta show, triggered a chain of reactions in entire South Kashmir. By the time cabinet responded,...
An Unequal Music
As Germans flew Zubin Mehta to Shalimar, it triggered a counter-concert in the heart of the city that authorities reluctantly permitted. The two concerts...
Wheel, Wails And Veil
In an old city house built a century back live three women from three generations. The nonagenarian granny earns on the spinning wheel to...
Village Destabilising Culture
For the last two decades, J&K’s security grid raised an almost 29000-member army of VDCs across the Jammu region by training and arming selective...
The Chenab Conflagration
Worst communal clashing on Eid led to three brutal deaths, massive property loss and a visible gulf between the two communities in Kishtwar. As...
Model in Mountains
At seven his father became part of Kashmir’s surging collateral damage and at 14 he was formally admitted to an orphanage. Nine years later,...
Quarter Century Later
Twin blasts in Srinagar in 1988 summer marked the beginning of militancy in Kashmir. R S Gull revisits the situation that triggered a change...
The Kunan Questions
The remote Kupwara village is a milestone in Kashmir’s tragedy. For the last more than two decades, the entire anger is directed towards the...
Mountain Massacre
The killings in Gool, a Godforsaken bowl nestled in the Pir Panchal peaks, offered residents a day to be on roads for the first...
Waiting For Justice
People heard the killer preside over the mourning but would talk in whispers till the judiciary took over. Papa Kishtwari, the erstwhile villain who...
Autonomous Autism
As L K Advani wished for abrogation of Article 370, Omar Abdullah threatened it can only happen on our dead bodies. The ‘article of...
