Tujjar’s Tragedy
Picked hours after he brought his bride home Tahir’s remains were sent home in a polybag. The brutal killing gave Kashmir many sleepless nights....
That Million March
Mass uprising coincided with the militant upsurge in 1990. It resurged after Gawkadal massacre thus paving way for twin massacres on March 1, when...
Father’s Wait…
For last nine years he is selling corns at a particular spot in Rajbagh hoping that someday his missing son might come back. Saima...
The Bravehearts
They were toddlers when Kunan tragedy became international news in 1991. Two decades later, five girls approached court and reopened the shut and closed...
A Grave Issue
Apparently to prevent mass gathering at militant funerals, security grid has abandoned the practice of transferring foreign militant corpses to residents for burial. Instead,...
Market Massacre
Zainakadal in Srinagar’s downtown has witnessed and withstood brutalities, massacres, regime changes, kings and occupiers, without losing its essence. But that was before the...
Dardpora’s Missing Trio
In November last year when three men from godforsaken Kupwara’s Dardpora village went missing mysteriously, the memories of 90s came back to haunt residents....
Jagmohan Days
NDA government’s Padma Vibhushan to Jagmohan Malhotra pushed Kashmir back to his stint in the 1990s’, reliving the days and nights of horror and terror....
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,...
Widows of Tosa Maidan
With Bajpathri threatening to set off a winter of discord in Kashmir for figuring in a probable list of new firing ranges, the old...
Clipped Wings
In a strife-torn valley, the tale of those whose limbs were devoured by the situation and the state of affairs continue to make air...
A Cupid’s Curse
Some love stories are known to have a treacherous plot besides a tragic end. But what happens if the love story holds a house...
Remembering Tahir
Even after the magisterial inquiry found army’s version of events leading to Tahir Sofi’s death as not true, his family and eyewitness are grinded...
1947: First Blood
Within 24 hours after Kashmir acceded to India in 1947, the Srinagar airport was not only the epicentre of the first war that India...
Plea for Justice
Despite previous government’s promise to bring the perpetrators of 2010 summer killings to justice, the killers roam free. Muntaha Mehraj Hafiz talks to one mother...
