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...
Resurgent Militancy?
An ambush in city outskirts killed eight soldiers on the eve of Prime Minister’s visit. It was continuation of serious assaults on security set...
Another Visit
After his path-breaking initiative at the LoC, Dr Manmohan Singh talked-a-bit with Kashmiri peaceniks and eventually created a round-table to help the moribund Vale....
The Forgotten Spies
Lured by a promising future and thrill to serve his country, a young taxi-driver from Jammu sneaked into Pakistan to snoop for Indian forces....
The Killing Entrepreneur
As counter-insurgency became the main priority of the government, it created its own stars. In the Chenab Valley, far away from Srinagar and Jammu,...
The Bypass Banking
For every Rs 100 that people in J&K deposit, the banks deploy more than Rs 63 outside the state, preventing the local resource to...
