Cometh Crackdown
A series of crackdowns starting from old Baramulla coupled with valley-wide whip on dissenters stirred up the haunting memories of those harrowing days in...
Whose Martyr Is This Sarpanch?
From his hit and run affair with paramilitary to his eventful date with militancy, Shahbad’s Sajad did it all before embracing Congress, the party...
Beyond Sadhna Top
As India and Pakistan are shelling each other’s positions, it is the civilian population that suffers the worst. Bilal Handoo spent a day with...
Exams, Eyes & Politics
With ‘dead eyes’ in background and at the peak of a debate over education when parents drove more than 80,000 students to the examination...
Marked Permanently
6250 pellet victims reached hospitals in last four months, however there were innumerable youth who avoided hospitals and tried to manage the injuries locally....
The Drowned Cop
by Aakash Hassan
On day 2, of Burhan’s killing; Mattan received body of its cherished cricketer, Afroaz Ahmad Lone, an SPO of four years.
Afroaz, 24, died...
“Non-Lethal” Deaths
After consuming at least seven lives since 2010, the debate around the lethality or non lethality of teargas shells is still not settled. Saima...
Killed Unpalatably
Stone and the stone-thrower remained unchanged as the response jumped from bamboo shield-tear smoke mix to pellet- PAVA combine. It was consistently asserted that...
Undoing EDI
Second attack in eight months has pushed the EDI into space-scarce that may force it operate from the tents for the time being. In...
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...
