Nowhatta Nightmare
Every time Kashmir is on protest, areas surrounding the historic Jamia Masjid are under curfew. Once restrictions are over, tensions pile up making police...
Deadly divide
Separated in birth by a year and in death by 6 kms, sub inspector Feroz Dar and rebel commander Bashir Lashkari belonged to two...
Minor Militants
The latest of the juvenile rebels killed in an encounter was only 15 years of age. He was neither the first to fall to...
A Militant’s Mother
When a rebel is killed, the loss and celebration on the two sides of the ideological divide is the routine. But what happens to the...
Risky Job
The debate over Gogoi gets louder after his ‘human shield’ act fetched him an award. Saima Bhat looks at the other side of the...
The Ghost Village
Continued turmoil did not trigger massive demographic upheavals and migrations alone. Jibran Nazir located a village in Kupwara that ceased to exist because population...
Slipping Control
Stake-holding in Kashmir is diluting fast as everybody is facing its own bit of challenge: the militants, the separatists and the government. So where...
Misplaced Priorities
Between the restive Kashmir streets and the reactive UN appendages lies the government of J&K. But its actions indicate, the coalition, seemingly in denial...
Ikhwan Tales
After suspected gunmen shot dead Rashid Billa at his Hajin residence, the Ikhwan tales were again in demand. Shams Irfan visited the belt to...
Rural Remilitarisation
After unprecedented poll cancellation, the government is still clueless about how to halt the slide that could push Kashmir into yet another crisis. The...
Fear and Exile
The killing of a senior party worker literally sent PDP foot-soldiers looking for save heavens outside south Kashmir. Suhail A Shah reports what it...
Virtual Wars
This past week Kashmir remained on the edge after half-a-dozen videos of atrocities surfaced online. Aakash Hassan reports how mobile phones are changing the...
Human Shields
After a mobile user recorded a few seconds of footage showing soldiers using a Shawl weaver as a human shield, moments after he cast...
Bloody Sunday
One of the bloodiest polling days in Kashmir’s recent history left 8 dead and over two hundred injured. Zubair Sofi manages to travel through...
Volcanic Verdict
Unprecedented since 1951, the first recorded election, the poll, re-poll and the postponement in Kashmir bypolls is the newest protest that cannot become a...
