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...
My Friend Aatir
They lived in the same locality and shared the school, the playground and the mounting concerns in the streets. Then the fate separated them....
Lost Again
Fourteen years after people normally move out of jail but Muzzafar Rather could go to gallows in West Bengal in absence of good defence,...
24 years and counting
This week, Muhammad Qasim Faktoo would complete 24 years in jail, which is half his life, reports Tasavur Mushtaq
Fighting the family battle of survival...
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...
Jail Memoir
The 76-days detention was revealing to the human rights defender Khurram Parvez, who walked out last week from Kot Bhalwal. He shares his indelible...
“I don’t blame people losing faith in SHRC as commission has not worked for...
After remaining headless for five years State Human Rights Commission (SHRC), Justice (retired) Bilal Nazki has recently taken over as its chairman. Born on...
Jail Chalo
As the crisis enters fourth month, arrests dominate the scene. Now cops move from door-to-door and get the ‘suspects’ to police station where they...
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...
‘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...
Firm of Liberty
As the situation crowded the jails across the state, not many could afford to arrange their court battles. It was then a legal firm...
