Sitting On A Massacre?
Every time streets are tense, people within and outside government revive memories of 2010 summer. But the families of youth whom civil unrest devoured...
Summer Slaughter
In one year, it took Tahir Bhat eight visits to police station Vilgam to attempt getting even the basic information about a watershed event....
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...
Living life under PSA
Manzoor Ahmad Khan, 28, lost his father and wife while he was in jail under PSA. His release, the family says, seems a distant...
Deconstructing Disability
Last summer added scores to the already swelled list of conflict induced disables in Kashmir. In order to understand, how the unfortunate individuals are...
Death of an Activist
A human rights activist by heart, a scholar by profession and a social worker by conscience, very few people must know that Tahir had...
A ‘Mad’ Mother
Deserted by her husband, she lived for the only son she owned after a legal battle over his possession. When he was supposed to...
Twenty Years After
Last week, the SHRC recommended a fresh investigation into Kunan mass rapes and compensation for the victims passing serious strictures against the investigators. Mudasir...
Wanna Bowl Again!
In the 2008 uprising over Amarnath land row that led to the killing of dozens of boys, scores of others were maimed by bullets...
Mistaken Identity
Last week, two soldiers were killed and three others injured at Chittergam on the outskirts of Srinagar when a fellow army unit fired on...
An Orchard of Graves
It started with the burial of his son in the orchard that was supposed to grow apple and bring prosperity. As years passed by,...
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,...
Children of Heaven!
The events of 2008, 2009 and 2010 exposed gen-next to a new Kashmir. They picked stones to vent their anger against a militrilized setup...
‘Shafi Ma Lobukh?’
When a Class 11 Batamaloo boy became one of the earliest enforced disappearance cases in Srinagar at the stroke of nineties, a silent death...
Ruined for life
After losing his eyesight to the pellets, a young man fought odds to come to the terms with enforced disability. Finally, his family encouraged...
