Speedy Justice!
A consumer’s court offers solace to thousands of complainants seeking compensations from fraudster service providers in Kashmir. But the understaffed forum, after raising hopes,...
Silencing Sailan
Terrified by a threat, 22 men, women and children of an extended family huddled together to save their skin in the summer of 1998....
“I think it is insidious what army is trying to do within Kashmir society”
Vrinda Grover, a New Delhi based lawyer, researcher, human and women’s rights activist tells Safwat Zargar that people of India will face consequences for...
Just(Sis)
Romanticism apart – Maqbool Bhat’s family is holding on the last straws that will hopefully carry forward its legacy and name. In last five...
Death Trap
As the army’s authority over the use and misuse of Tosamaidan meadow expired after five decades, the fascinating but tattered landscape is in sharp...
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...
Evidently Wrong
As people were waiting for answers, the army’s court martial in the Pathribal encounter ended in a revelation suggesting ‘Operation Kripan’ that devoured five...
Born Orphan
Every child born in Kashmir during 90’s opened his eyes in hostility. In most of the cases the first thing they witnessed was death,...
The Conundrum At Kunan
From a day long protest at the peak of militancy in 1991 to the return in sharp public focus in 2013, the Kunan case...
The Kunan Questions
The remote Kupwara village is a milestone in Kashmir’s tragedy. For the last more than two decades, the entire anger is directed towards the...
Waiting For Justice
People heard the killer preside over the mourning but would talk in whispers till the judiciary took over. Papa Kishtwari, the erstwhile villain who...
Kunan Victims Recount “The Ordeal”
At a seminar in Srinagar, various victims from Kunan spoke publicly of their ordeal and threw questions to the society, reports Bilal Handoo
"Our children...
The Mother’s Struggle
Threatened by the government-backed gunmen to keep quiet, Bakhti Begum sold off her land to keep up the fight for her son who became...
A Murder most foul
The events that unfurled after the killing of teenager Tufail Mattoo put the entire Kashmir Valley on boil in 2010. After persistent denials, a...
Perfecting Role-play
As National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party slug it out on who was drawing political mileage out of the hanging of Afzal Guru, both...
