Solid Sopore
It proved costly for Sopore to jump from being apple town to the rebel town. Inducing poverty and impacting public infrastructure, the image-shift decimated...
Frontier Woes
Caught in the crossfire between India and Pakistan the people of J&K living near IB and LoC are on a razor’s edge. Meha Dixit...
Memon Memories
As Yakub Memon’s hanging triggered a debate across India, various Kashmiris knowing Mumbai’s Tiger after 1993 refreshed their memories telling Bilal Handoo how Delhi...
Rebel Resurrection?
The land row of 2008 was seen a landmark year witnessing Kashmir’s transition from violence to Ahimsa, the non-violence, a fact that 2010 unrest...
No RAW Deal!
While demolishing stake-holding claims of many Kashmiris, former RAW chief A S Dulat has triggered a new challenge for his successors in India’s intelligence...
Frustrated, All
Sopore killings have thrown up new challenges for the security grid and the politicians as the government is desperate to restore its credibility, reports...
Sopore Suspense
Decimated by strife, post-1996 Sopore started looking forward to get back to the routine. But it was really never out of the crisis. As...
Kashmir’s Tech Wars
Momentary disruptions in mobile services triggered a lot of heat and dust as it could hit J&K’s two-third population directly. Apart from impacting security...
Festive Longings
With the dawn of May 26 each year, Kashmiri Pandits massively date Kashmir by turning up for annual Kheerbhavani Mela. Of late as the...
Life is Easy Now
After removal of dreaded Hanwari camp in Charar-i-Sharief life is slowly bouncing back to normal. But can the freed landscape help in healing painful...
Alam in Uproar
At the peak of 2010 mass unrest, police put a million rupees booty on his head. When arrested, cops got Rs 25 lakh instead....
Kashmir’s Crash Lands
Last week’s chopper crash at Safapora was neither the first one nor is expected to be the last air crash in Kashmir. Since 1947...
Tral Trap
Amid claims of Kashmir bouncing back to halcyon days, army sees Tral as the new ‘militant hotspot’. The latest clash saw two fresh militant...
Keeping Them Safe
It takes Rs 100 annually to secure VVIPs in a cash starved state. Safwat Zargar reports the largesse of a system that scrooge on...
JKLF’s Israel Blitzkrieg!
The dramatic abduction and release of an Israeli tourist in early nineties by the ‘powerful’ Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) on ‘humanitarian grounds’...
