A Wailing Mother
Decision by a son to join militancy was the first blow to her motherhood. His funeral coincided with the detection of cancer in her....
Seven Mournings
Whether or not the post-encounter explosion at Laroo was a violation of the 2012 SOP is a matter of investigation. But Farzana Nissar visited...
Manan, A New Wani?
Burhan Wani’s killing in 2016 summer was the key factor in converting a scholar into a militant. Tral teenager used technology to revive a...
The Other Side of Pain
Killings are painful and shattering for everybody regardless of the politics and profession. On the day of Eid, three cops were killed and two...
The Bomb Hill
Not far away from Khundroo, Kashmir’s major Ordnance Depot, a village hillock is the site where the expired ordnance is exploded. The village living...
Horror In Hawoora
A good boy’s sweet dream sent the entire village to clear the graveyard from weeds and shrubs and minutes later soldiers came and sent...
Birth of Burhan
In Last 30 years, Kashmir witnessed killings of thousands of militants, some of them trained by veterans in Afghanistan. But why none of them...
A Trojan In Hajin
A series of brutal killings by unknown gunmen have frightened the region that was source of scare to most of Kashmir at one point...
The New Outcasts?
Dramatic turns and twists at ground zero have squeezed the space for middle-rung workers of unionist political parties, forcing police to set up a...
Driven Over
Last week, Kashmir witnessed another harrowing clip of a killing recorded by some citizen journalist. Saima Bhat visited the family to understand the boy...
Men in Khaki
In the backdrop of Kathua kidnapping, rape and murder of little Rasana girl, certain sections of society in J&K are raising fingers towards the...
That Bloody Sunday
As Shopian killings paralysed Kashmir for almost a week, yet again, Umar Mukhtar spent crisis-time down south in locating and meeting the families of...
Ominous Trends?
Between the three gun-battles that dominated Kashmir last week, there were interactions between two parents and their about-to-be-killed militant sons. The conversations offers an...
Fault-line Kashmir
That the militancy in Kashmir is a monolith was always questioned by security experts. Now when black flags have started unfurling in parts of...
Smouldering Shopian
The smallest district in J&K but one of the most prosperous ones, Shopian has gone twice into mass mournings this year. After the six...
