A Step Ahead
It’s a difficult life for landmine victims, but one man hopes he can help alleviate their suffering. Tasavur Mushtaq reports on one individual’s crusade for...
A History’s Witness
K D Sethi is a dark old horse that has been a part of and an intimate witness to some of the most important...
Gore And Gloss
Public memory, particularly of horror, is such a heritage that often guides societies away from feeding conditions that could lead to a repeat of...
Kashmiri Teen’s Trauma Exposes Flawed Indian Justice
SRINAGAR, India, March 8, 2012 (AFP) – Syed Maqbool Shah, an aspiring teacher from Kashmir aged 17, was visiting his brother in New Delhi in June 1996 when police wrongly accused him of taking part in a bombing.
To Tell A Numbing Story
Mohammed Maqbool has handled nearly 12,000 mainly mutilated bodies during the 14 years of violence in Kashmir — and now he has had enough.
INNOCENT BUT PUNISHED
It is not unique in the slow Indian justice delivery system, but its magnitude for some Kashmiris is. Before courts acquitted them many have...
Life of A Massacre
A massacre can perpetuate trauma in memory. The scars of Chittisinghpora will never vanish, but 12 years after 35 Sikhs were brutally gunned down...
The lone survivor: Nanak Singh
Bodies of victims killed in Chattisighpora massacre - Image courtesy: Sikh Siyasat
I was 46 years old in 2000. I was a government employee in...
The Pathribal Aftermath
Pathribal was a part of three successive and related killings which claimed 50 lives between March 20 and April 3, 2000. On March 20,...
Trapped in the cycle
The chief minister’s amnesty to hundreds of arrested stone throwing protesters of 2010, ‘Eidi from elders to youngsters’ turned out to be a mirage....
Gone without a trace
Many youth have gone missing during the last 22 years of strife in Kashmir and for many of them there is no record or...
‘Killing Army’s Mistake’
Last week an army patrol stepped inside AshiqHussain’s compound and shot him dead. The army officials have accepted that it was a mistake. Mudasir...
RTI & Human Rights
Dr Raja Muzaffar BhatThe violation of Human Rights has been a matter of great concern in Jammu & Kashmir for nearly two decades now....
A Widow’s Life
An overwhelming 91 per cent of widows choose not to remarry in Muslim majority Kashmir as they are stigmatized and their children are not...
Sopore Massacre
An eyewitness of the infamous “Jan 6 Sopore massacre”, Abdul Hamid Bhat, narrates the horrid tale of the slaughter and arson by men in...
