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...
Death at Doorstep
Rangrez family collect bits and pieces from their razed house where two militants were killed in a 22 hour long gun battle, Shams Irfan...
FAROOQ KHAN
History has interesting ways of repeating itself. The day the senior citizenry trekked to Bulbul Nawagam in Islamabad periphery to pay their tribute to...
Unheard Cries
While lethality and legality of pellet gun is still a matter of debate, silent and unending ordeal of victims and their families remain unheard....
Right now, people are migrating from Keran to safer parts of North Kashmir
Hailing from a political family, Panthers Party MLC Rafiq Shah made forays in politics early in his life. Known for being outspoken in the...
The YES Men
The TSD exposé suggested two NGOs were the beneficiaries of the massive funds till General V K Singh’s super-intelligence structure was disbanded. Suhail Ansari...
Leepa Lamp Post
As Hilal Ahmad went visiting a Leepa Valley shrine wrested from Pakistan in 1971, he found two specific regiments of rival armies facing each...
Chenab Divides
Recent communal clashes in Kishtwar have brought VDCs back into focus. While Muslims question their relevance in militancy-free Chenab valley, Hindus feel they are...
Who Is Killing Them?
One of the foremost features of Kashmir’s strife is that tens of thousands of people, men, women and youth, started moving out of their...
A New Security Regime
Sixty six years after her independence, India is shifting from its federal structure by using a ‘security route’ to encroach upon the autonomy enjoyed...
Billing Move!
Proposed controversial police Bill 2013 that seeks enormous powers for the over 100 thousand strong force has already set a raging debate across the...
An Imaginary Divide?
Line of Control has historically been a cartographic imagination. But the fence that emerged around the divide in the last few years has started...
The Rival Games
Beheading soldiers and taking heads as war trophies is just one dimension of the macabre rivalries of the two armies manning Kashmir ‘frontiers’ since...
Survival Tales
Trained across the LoC, they fought in Kashmir, were jailed and set free. Some of them surrendered too. But that didn’t end the uncertainty...
Chasing A Mirage
A group of Baramulla youth crossed over to Pakistan in 1990 to receive arms training. One of them was Tariq. After 22 years, Tariq...
