Grassroots Failure?
Panchayt elections were meant to be an international political statement as well as an exercise to experiment democracy at the grassroots level. Just a...
Suraya The Sarpanch
Nazir Ahmad RatherAfter getting elected from her village LalporaTangmarg as a Sarpanch, 28-year-old Suraya Rather is busy these days getting things done for her...
Kashmir cablegate
The complex dynamic of Kashmir conflict is difficult for many to understand. But scores of leaked US cables bring out an assessment that is...
HARUD CONTROVERSY
The first proposed litfest in Kashmir generated controversy amid concerns raised by a group of individuals and extreme Facebook-reaction to rumors of controversial writers...
Almost two months after the HarudLit Fest
was announced to be held in Srinagar, 14 authors, journalists, academics and filmmakers posted an ‘open letter’ on kafila.org. The brief response forced many...
THE DEAD WILL SPEAK
The government has acknowledged for the first time in 20 years that there may be a connection between thousands of unmarked graves and those...
Grave issue invokes sharp reactions
The SHRC report confirming the presence of unmarked graves in north Kashmir has evoked sharp reactions across the political spectrum in the valley with...
A buried claim
The calls for forensic tests by impartial International rights bodies to determine the fate of the missing may have brought hopes to many families...
IMPRISONED SCHOLARLY
Thousands of people were jailed in Kashmir since 1990’s. Their miserable lives in confinement notwithstanding; scores of them converted their cells into study centers...
The Grace of Charity
Orphans and destitute widows pose a huge moral challenge to the people in Kashmir. The society has responded through personal and private institutional efforts...
Orphan brothers
by Syed Asma
A 12-year old boy greets this reporter in a submissive voice, sits in a chair, looks uncomfortable and rarely take his eyes...
‘Murder by Torture’
Last week, a young man, son of a retired police officer was murdered in the custody of State Police’s Special Operations Group in Sopore....
Inheriting Language of Turbulence
August 2011 marks the beginning of 24th year of the militancy in Kashmir, a phenomenon that did not only devour a generation in its...
KASHMIR LOBBYIST ON TRIAL
For more than two decades Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai has globally been the most prominent advocate of Kashmir 'cause'. Last week America’s FBI arrested...
SENSING LIFE WITHOUT BUNKERS
Hussain Danish takes us around Srinagar to feel what life has been like in areas where some of security forces’ bunkers were removed recently....
