That Last Drive
Shams Irfan spent 24 hours in Tral and was part of the multiple funeral prayers that swelling mourners offered on July 9. Five months...
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...
Cometh Crackdown
A series of crackdowns starting from old Baramulla coupled with valley-wide whip on dissenters stirred up the haunting memories of those harrowing days in...
Whose Martyr Is This Sarpanch?
From his hit and run affair with paramilitary to his eventful date with militancy, Shahbad’s Sajad did it all before embracing Congress, the party...
Beyond Sadhna Top
As India and Pakistan are shelling each other’s positions, it is the civilian population that suffers the worst. Bilal Handoo spent a day with...
Exams, Eyes & Politics
With ‘dead eyes’ in background and at the peak of a debate over education when parents drove more than 80,000 students to the examination...
Marked Permanently
6250 pellet victims reached hospitals in last four months, however there were innumerable youth who avoided hospitals and tried to manage the injuries locally....
The Drowned Cop
by Aakash Hassan
On day 2, of Burhan’s killing; Mattan received body of its cherished cricketer, Afroaz Ahmad Lone, an SPO of four years.
Afroaz, 24, died...
“Non-Lethal” Deaths
After consuming at least seven lives since 2010, the debate around the lethality or non lethality of teargas shells is still not settled. Saima...
Killed Unpalatably
Stone and the stone-thrower remained unchanged as the response jumped from bamboo shield-tear smoke mix to pellet- PAVA combine. It was consistently asserted that...
Undoing EDI
Second attack in eight months has pushed the EDI into space-scarce that may force it operate from the tents for the time being. In...
Campaign Costs
Kashmir has attracted international attention over human rights abuse since long now. Many global watchdogs who frequented valley to document its rights situation have...
War, Is It?
Almost three months and scores of international squabbling matches after, Delhi and Islamabad are inching toward a confrontation to satisfy their national egos. But...
Rallying South
by Aakash Hassan
Some scribes have arrived from Srinagar to report restive south. But my nose smells nothing in town, says one in apathy. We...
