Curfewed Marriages
Big fat Kashmiri weddings have become austere this season, thanks to long curfews and shutdowns, but the simple ceremonies have much bigger hassles in...
Enemy territory
People of Palhallan have been incarcerated in their homes without electricity and access to healthcare, nor are they allowed to harvest paddy or pick...
A law of lawlessness
With debate over revocation of AFSPA getting a lot of media attention, Kashmir Life looks into the law believed to be the source of gross human rights violations in J&K.
Caught in the showdown
A series of shutdowns and curfews has put the state in a strange logjam, with an escape nowhere in sight. Khursheed Wani reports.
In many...
Interrupted childhood disrupted future
Youngsters are becoming a major causality in street protests in Kashmir. Apart from the bullets and batons, a number of children are now facing...
Witnessing murder
An otherwise calm colony of Islamabad town, Anchidora, witnessed horror on June 29, when three youth were killed in cold blood, in the compound...
Delhi directives
Situation in Kashmir forced a high level meeting in Delhi chaired by prime minister Manmohan Singh, which discussed a strategy to contain Kashmir unrest....
‘Saying civilians were killed is a misnomer’
Union Home Secretary G. K. Pillai talks about the situation in Kashmir in an interview with Iftikhar Geelani
KL: Violence is raging in Kashmir. Is...
June turmoil
For the third consecutive year, the month of June has turned out to be the most turbulent in Kashmir. Khursheed Wani reports
It may be...
Blood For Booty
Macchil murders add one more chapter to the bloody history of fake encounters in Kashmir, where greed for medals and rewards feeds on human...
Norm of abberations
It may be a minor error of judgement for the man with his hand on trigger, but for those on the receiving end, it...
Police rule freaks family
A sudden shriek woke up Ghulam Qadir Lone from his afternoon siesta in his ground floor room at Marhama village, 12 Km from north...
Jailed and honoured
Iftikhar Geelani’s detention and release from jail is a melodrama that he narrated in a book My Days In Prison. Penguin India published the...
Home Calling!
As New Delhi debates its surrender policy and draws flak for calling back ‘militants’ from PaK, hardly anyone explains that apart from intending or...
Those who stayed back
As New Delhi woos migrant Kashmiri Pandits back to Valley with financial packages, those who stayed back through turbulent years were almost ignored. MAJID...
