Why?
As the four districts are trying to get a semblance of routine after losing 77 youth in 2016 unrest, amid frequent interventions in bloody...
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...
Pepper Paradise
In the wild goose chase for something to replace the deadly darker pellets, the government got pepper and PAVA. As the government is still...
12 Years Later
Twenty three days after the Sarojni Nagar blasts killed 62 people and left 210 injured, Delhi Police swooped on two homes in Kashmir and...
Reluctant Rebels
That was 2012 when three friends had come home after evening prayers that there was a killing in neighbourhood. Next morning, they were in...
Stones bleed
Pellets, bullets apart, while stones lead to injuries, there were some killings too, reports Saima Bhat
Stones were portrayed as the weapon of the weak....
Just An Encounter
For last more than two decades, it is quite normal in Kashmir to have an encounter, a gun battle between fugitives from law and...
Oh, Jana
The hope of having him alive keeps Jana Begum going. A witness to five deaths in last two decades, the old lady is waiting...
2010 Killings ‘Admitted’
M L Koul Commission that was entrusted with the investigations of 2010 unrest, belatedly in 2014, has finally submitted its report. Recommending one case...
Sopore Massacre
In Kashmir’s troubled history January is drenched in blood, literally. Jibran Nazir revisits the gory memories of Sopore massacre that consumed fifty three civilians...
Will Nazki deliver?
By Khursheed Wani
By the end of 2016, State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) completed two decades of its existence in the trouble-torn J&K.Kashmir. It is...
Systemic Silence
Five months after the first pellet victim walked into SMHS hospital amid sloganeering and charged up tempers, Tabish Rafiq Mir visits the hospital only...
Blocked Gateway
After four killings on highway connecting Kashmir with Delhi, an eerie silence replaced noise of engines. Aakash Hassan revisits the tragedies that kept the...
Death of Fear
Fear is a key element of managing abnormal situations and it has been in vogue for decades now in Kashmir. With youth clashing with...
Separated by a bullet
Every single killing in the summer 2016 unrest left behind a story of pain, loss and festering wounds that will take its own time...
