Living a Tragedy
Twenty years ago, a painter disappeared mysteriously in Srinagar. His traumatized wife went from police to judiciary to jails to seek answers but no...
Tragic Tales
Following the execution of 2001 Parliament Attack convict Afzal Guru, police and paramilitary forces have resorted to extreme use of pellet guns to deal...
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...
Under the shadow of AFSPA
All evidence so far in the killing of a young man in Bandipore points to his innocence. Even if it is established as a...
Jailed and honoured
Iftikhar Geelani’s detention and release from jail is a melodrama that he narrated in a book My Days In Prison. Penguin India published the...
Wrecked Dreams
When cops catch hold of a minor and write him in their records, it marks the beginning of a long crisis for him, reports...
Interrupted childhood disrupted future
Youngsters are becoming a major causality in street protests in Kashmir. Apart from the bullets and batons, a number of children are now facing...
The half in Dark
A year after Parliament attack convict Azfal Guru was hanged inside Tihar, his widow Tabassum is living a hushed life. Devoting most of her...
Woman’s Burden
Thousands of families, from every section of the society, lost their sole male breadwinners over the past three decades, shifting the burden of looking...
Qadir’s Wild Search
His son went to a doctor and did not return. Next morning, he was taken by the army and released in a condition forcing...
Lalla Rookh Eyes
Exactly 200 years after Irish blind poet Thomas Moore sung in praise of Kashmir, its beauty, its women and their eyes in his epic-poem,...
A Daughter’s Fight
Fourteen years after a chemist from Rawalpora was taken by army and subjected to enforced disappearance, his daughter held his funeral-in-absentia. Fighting twists, turns,...
Shielded Crudely
After world reacted adversly to what a young Major did to a voter by making him a human shield and parading him for 28...
Distant Burials
Families whose members were buried by authorities in distant graveyards citing pandemic want the restrictions must be eased now for all, reports Farzana Nisar
Dressed in...
A Master Battle
More than two decades after his two brothers including a medical doctor were killed in cold blood by an Ikhwan gang, a Communist Party-affiliated...
