Suppression Bounces Back!
By Tasavur Mushtaq
Summer 2014, when political parties were busy in campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections, I travelled across Kashmir to cover the big...
Default Culprits
Saima Bhat
In any conflict zone, killings, torture, disappearances, rapes are common. But in Kashmir, a conflict zone too, such things have become a norm....
Introspect Please
by Syed Asma
Last week Kashmir buried five more blood-soaked bodies. For most of us, it is just statistics. We condemn killings, mourn for a...
Ah! Democracy
Mohammad Raafi
Kashmir is on the boil again. What happened in Handwara on Tuesday is hardly unusual.
This has been a familiar story that Kashmir has...
Let’s Control!
Riyaz Ul Khaliq
Social media is the weirdest tool available to those who love to jump to the guns. Now, don’t dismiss it as the...
Sharing Grief
By Saima Bhat
In ideal world children often show their scars as medals.
But if the kid is from Kashmir, born during troubling 80s, then the...
Thank You Lala!
Mohammad Raafi
Kashmiris visiting Kolkata in large numbers during winters is nothing new, it is simply part of economic migration. However, last week when Kashmiris,...
Catch-22
Riyaz Ul Khaliq
“My son achieved purpose of his life,” summed up mother of Dawood who died fighting Indian forces in South Kashmir. “Why should...
Freedom 2.0
Mohammad Raafi
In conflict zones like Kashmir, news and information gets buried due to the pressure from conflicting parties, collusion of the news source with...
Net Loss
Shakir Mir
A string of incidents that took place in the recent past signals to something very ominous. In the realm of words and expressions,...
Question of Identity
Mohammad Raafi
Unnecessary hue and cry by rightwing BJP backed Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) over a peaceful event on Afzal Guru and Maqbool Bhat...
Different Angle
Saima Bhat
The moment photographs of Owais Bashir Malik’s mutilated body, an engineering student who went missing on January 12, became public, uptown’s quite Peerbagh...
Great Fall
Riyaz Ul Khaliq
Praise thy Lord! With the demise of former Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, the ‘North Pole-South Pole’ alliance of two ideologically diverse...
Let History Decide
by Iftikhar Gilani
In early 2005, when Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was at the helm of affairs, I was returning to Srinagar from apple rich city...
The Year of Insomnia
Tasavur Mushtaq
A midnight message in December woke me from deep sleep. With half shut eyes, a blurred image of 2016 appeared on my cellphone...
