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...
Living Torture
The government has scuttled a bill aimed at preventing torture by police and punishing the perpetrators. Khursheed Wani analyses why the state is reluctant...
Kashmir’s Own 9/11
As unionists and pro-freedom leaders have come together to echo fears of political radicalisation among the youth, there is little doubt that the decision...
The Pathribal Aftermath
Pathribal was a part of three successive and related killings which claimed 50 lives between March 20 and April 3, 2000. On March 20,...
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,...
Ikhwan Tales
After suspected gunmen shot dead Rashid Billa at his Hajin residence, the Ikhwan tales were again in demand. Shams Irfan visited the belt to...
The Double Cross?
As cops found their colleague accompanying the most wanted militant in a Jammu bound car intercepted on the highway, it was like a proverbial...
Trapped in the cycle
The chief minister’s amnesty to hundreds of arrested stone throwing protesters of 2010, ‘Eidi from elders to youngsters’ turned out to be a mirage....
Benefit of doubt
Most of the accused including the pimp and her alleged clients were exonerated by a designated CBI court in Chandigarh to which the sensational...
Afzal Guru A Posthumous Probe?
As a deceptive normalcy returns to Kashmir amid separatist-sponsored strikes and government imposed curfews, a lot of reportage is emerging on Afzal Guru case...
With Grieving Gurus’
Temporarily inaccessible for law and order reasons, Sameer Yasir opted a crisscross trek to reach the tiny Mazbug, home of Afzal Guru to understand...
Divorce and Maintenance
Various courts in a series of petitions involving divorces and maintenance laid down norms for situations, in which the relations break down, Syed Shadab Ali...
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...
‘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...
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....
