WILL HE? WON’T HE?
Kashmiris have a mixed feeling towards Obama’s India visit, while some expect him to talk Kashmir, most do not. Khursheed Wani reports. The public...
Living Torture
The government has scuttled a bill aimed at preventing torture by police and punishing the perpetrators. Khursheed Wani analyses why the state is reluctant...
Dismayed
The much hyped talk of appointing interlocutors for Kashmir have started as a damp squib, with most people dismayed by New Delhi’s choice. Iftikhar...
Scarred for Life
Hundreds of people injured during the current unrest are fighting a lonely battle for survival, and hope - of a better future. Though in...
Lost Light
People who know him as a soft spoken doctor may find noted ophthalmologist Dr Bashir Ahmad a changed man. He gets angry frequently and sometimes talks aloud. No big change, after what he been seeing in the last three months of unrest.
BRAVING BULLETS, SAVING LIVES
They are stopped, harassed, beaten up, but they turn up for duty day after day. Doctors and hospital staff kept the healthcare sector running...
The forgotten casualty
The huge death toll during the current uprising has pushed the hundreds of injured away from public and media attention, though many of them will live either disfigured or without sight or crippled for life. Kashmir Life reports.
NOT EVEN 1988!
With voices for freedom getting louder in the streets of Srinagar, proposals of Autonomy and Self Rule are doing rounds among pro-India politicians. But...
A law of lawlessness
With debate over revocation of AFSPA getting a lot of media attention, Kashmir Life looks into the law believed to be the source of gross human rights violations in J&K.
NATIVE NARRATIVE
A lot has written on the current Kashmir unrest by publications across the globe. Kashmir Life invites the primary stake holders Kashmiri people –...
DESPERATELY SEPARATE
Unlike the 2008 agitation which saw a united front of separatists, there are hardly any moves or talk of unity this time around. Khursheed...
Lethal Mindsets
After 64 deaths and more than 700 injured, the state is arming forces with ‘non-lethal’ weapons for managing protesting crowds. However, experts say the...
MAN OF THE MOMENT
He has talked violence when others shied away, he talks peace when others dare not. Khursheed Wani delves into enigmatic persona of the most influential man in Kashmir today, to whose power New Delhi has suddenly woken to.
‘Freedom is more precious’
Separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani refuses to budge from his stand and asks the government of India to ‘accept the ground reality of Kashmir’. Khurshid Wani talks to the octogenarian leader.
THE MAN
Born in 1929, Syed Ali Geelani was a schoolteacher for ten years till he resigned in 1959 to join Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) as a fulltime worker. A fire brand orator he represented Sopore in the state legislative assembly thrice in 1972, 1977 and 1987
