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...
Pushed To Wall
The new generation that was raised under the shadows of gun in a situation dehumanized by the decades old crisis is now dominating the...
Blinding SOP
Amid piling load of pellet-blinds in valley’s another seething summer, Kashmir threatens to become a miserable home of dark lives. As eye assault continues...
Night of Pain
A day after Burhan’s killing in nearby Bemdoora village, restive tourist hotspot Achabal reacted quite unexpectedly. Aakash Hassan reports how three deaths have left...
Smouldering Summer
Six years after 2010 summer triggered Kashmir’s new age militancy, killing of a young rebel stirred up another summer of dissenting and bloodletting. With...
Painful Pellets
After being inducted as the non-lethal crowd-controller at the peak of 2010 mayhem, pellet guns started scripting a new age misery that is now...
Being Burhan
In the new age Kashmir, even rebellion needs icons. But the rise of Tral’s sober son in the virtual world was meteoric, surprising and...
Return of the Ring
After three cop killings in Srinagar and subsequently a few more in south, security scenario across Kashmir witnessed a sharp spike. But in many...
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...
Controversially Yours
Years before the archrivals NC and PDP would lock horns over the proposed Sainik colonies and separate Pandit Township in state assembly, Jammu...
Next Tosamaidan?
After winding up its half-a-century-old gory shell-campaign at Tosamaidan in 2014, army is exploring alternative area. Bajpathri, the fascinating meadow between Pulwama, Budgam and...
Sangh, Sainik and Scholarship
Apparently addressing its vote bank, the noisy rightwing exposed a plan that was inches away from implementation in Srinagar. But how long can the...
Garrison, My Home
Life changes its details once the home relocates. It sounds completely different when new situation surrounds the home. Shams Irfan meets a group of...
