Coalition at Crossroads
Rahul Gandhi and Omar Abdullah have been swearing by the relationship that the two political dynasties have had for generations in Jammu and Kashmir....
Missing Identity
Abandoned by their families and stigmatized by the community, the members of third gender in Kashmir are battling for their survival in an unjust...
Tempted Temporality
J&K has four Hindu Shrine Boards. Amidst fierce resistance to the idea of internal management and utilization of resources owned by temples in Kashmir...
Picniconomics
Tourism is cash and has instant trickledown effect on any economy. While the contribution of hospitality sector to the state’s overall economy is slightly...
A New Stone Age
As sections of youth try to standardize stone pelting as the new mode of communication, law enforcing agencies slide in the old era to...
Back to Basics
Ignoring the spate of curfews and strikes, an apparent repercussion of Afzal Guru’s hanging, the Fidayeen attack in Bemina is being used to blunt...
On The Edge
Events starting with the execution of Afzal Guru have led Kashmir to a situation in which it is either a call for a protest...
New Book, New Revelations
That Poonch rebellion and not the tribal raids were fundamental to the slicing of erstwhile Kashmir state is an established fact. But Christopher Snedden’s...
Knots of the NOOSE
Afzal Guru dropped out of medical college, crossed LoC, returned and surrendered. His protracted struggle to survive without becoming a surrogate soldier or a...
An Evolving Trust
Away from public gaze, a chain of schools across J&K has built massive infrastructure with community participation to educate more than 100000 boys and...
Reaping The Harvest
Cannabis cultivation was a parallel economy in pockets of south Kashmir that sustained many livelihoods. As the police successfully cracked down on the cultivators...
Erasing Past
The discovery of a fossil-rich site at Guryul Khonmoh by a British geoscientist in the late 19th century initiated studies that geologists claim helped...
A Generational Shift
In the heads and tails analysis of the recent reshuffle in coalition government’s ministerial council, Omar Abdullah’s action of immense implications was missed by...
In Times of Peace
As India and Pakistan trade barbs over the brutalization of their soldiers in renewed hostilities on LoC, Sameer Yasir treks to the non-descript Charunda...
Whose “Daminis” Are They?
While the civil society in India is mourning, and rightly so, the horrible rape and murder of a girl in Delhi, it has conveniently...
