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...
In Retrospect
2012 is history. Like every other year, it was a mixed bag of good, bad and ugly events. Kashmir Life revisited different sectors to...
Survival Tales
Trained across the LoC, they fought in Kashmir, were jailed and set free. Some of them surrendered too. But that didn’t end the uncertainty...
LOST IN TRANSLATION
Ever since the birth of Kashmir conflict, the leadership cutting across ideological divides have traditionally embarked on ambitious dispute- resolution trips to Islamabad. As...
Messy Millions
As crores of rupees flow into the sleepy Letpora hamlet, a dangerous consumerism has set in among the villagers, replacing simplicity and appetite for...
The Daughter
Caught in the vortex of multi-polar violence, Razia Sultan’s fight to trace her disappeared father on both sides of LoC is of epic proportions....
