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....
Kashmir: 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 the Kashmir 'cause'. Last week, America’s FBI...
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....
Submerging A Culture
NHPC’s upcoming Kishanganga power project would displace hundreds, submerge homes and endanger the fragile ecology of Gurez Valley besides putting the culture and future...
What LoC!
Four villages in the remote picturesque valley of Gurez, almost treacherous 150 kilometers from Srinagar, have had no milk for past more than 10...
Tiger Ladies
Kashmiri women have been at the forefront of political and social movements. Now they are writing books, mostly on contemporary issues. Syed Asma reports
This...
Kashmir’s New Bourgeoisie
For five years, 33849 elected individuals would decide over the basic socio-economic development of 76 percent of J&K’s population. Kashmir Life looks into Kashmir’s...
