Waiting for Papa
As their father languishes in Delhi’s Tihar jail for last 21 years, four daughters are doing their bit to keep the family together. Heena...
Why?
As the four districts are trying to get a semblance of routine after losing 77 youth in 2016 unrest, amid frequent interventions in bloody...
Deconstructing Disability
Last summer added scores to the already swelled list of conflict induced disables in Kashmir. In order to understand, how the unfortunate individuals are...
A Radar Change
As India and Pakistan armies fought its first formal battle over Kashmir in 1965, a small village in Budgam paid the ultimate price. At...
Pepper Paradise
In the wild goose chase for something to replace the deadly darker pellets, the government got pepper and PAVA. As the government is still...
12 Years Later
Twenty three days after the Sarojni Nagar blasts killed 62 people and left 210 injured, Delhi Police swooped on two homes in Kashmir and...
Reluctant Rebels
That was 2012 when three friends had come home after evening prayers that there was a killing in neighbourhood. Next morning, they were in...
My Friend Aatir
They lived in the same locality and shared the school, the playground and the mounting concerns in the streets. Then the fate separated them....
Just An Encounter
For last more than two decades, it is quite normal in Kashmir to have an encounter, a gun battle between fugitives from law and...
Lost Again
Fourteen years after people normally move out of jail but Muzzafar Rather could go to gallows in West Bengal in absence of good defence,...
‘It was very difficult for India to retain Kashmir but that movement (Ikhwan) did...
From a top militant in Pakistan to becoming the lawmaker in J&K, Bandipore MLA Usman Majeed wore hats. The gun-wielding counter-insurgent once was the...
A Pistol Thief
What is the extreme a thief can do in a conflict ridden place like Kashmir? Meet Deena, who literally vanished with an army officer’s...
A Militant for 53 days
Nobody knew what was going inside his teenager mind, till Basit Dar left and disappeared. For the next 53 days, he was faced with...
“Being a border area, there is a deep network of Intelligence agencies including IB,...
A Humanities graduate from Punjab University, Deldan Namgail (38) was Sarpanch before becoming a Lawmaker from Nubra. During his college days, he headed the Ladakh...
Bemdoora Bamboozle?
For most of the last half a year, the fateful encounter that killed teenage rebel Burhan Wani has remained a sort of riddle. Aakash...
