Southern Samaritans
As bullet/pellet hit of seething south started crowding Islamabad Hospital, the rising sentiments made it tough for medicos to work before volunteers showed up...
United In Crisis
As hospitals get overwhelmed by injured and their attendants, local organisations and volunteers help feed, cloth, and manage part of the crisis. Ubeer Naqushbandi reports
A...
Love, That Wasn’t?
The reluctant love marriage that recently ended with suspicious death of an English teacher of Srinagar seems to have an uncanny resemblance with a...
Replicating Emotions
Intach’s effort to document historically important structures in Kashmir came handy while rebuilding devastated Dastageer Sahib Shrine. Ubeer Naqushbandi reports the behind the scene...
The Groundbreakers
After creating its own identity in the situation that engulfed Kashmir in recent past, Sonawari belt suffered silently under an exploitative broker rule pushing...
Spreading Sweetness
Her clientele include world’s who-is-who. The honey lady of Kashmir’s journey with beekeeping started by chance, rather by choice. Ubeer Naqushbandi tells her story
Her...
Washing It Off
The secret of washing Pashmina shawls helped five families flourish in Aali Kadal till it remained with them. Once out, the new secret keepers...
Set in Cement
Khrew’s rise to fame as Kashmir’s cement capital is dusted with promises, pain, rivalries, and choked lungs. Bilal Handoo tells the story of cement...
Razor’s Edge
A mental asylum is the last place to make friends. But what if you end up making one? Bilal Handoo tells one such story...
Captive Childhood
When a marriage falls apart it’s the children who become first casualty of the crisis. Away from the secrecy of living rooms, couples fight...
Assassinated
After a new situation took over Kashmir within a year after the March 1987 elections, many players from the unionist camp were killed in...
Dial for Help
It was because of a NGO’s sting that a Sopore based faith-healer’s dirty world was uncovered. Shakir Mir takes a look at the NGO’s...
‘Royal’ Sale
A Mughal era garden in Dal Lake’s lap is latest causality of land mafia. Sold by the Maharaja to a wealthy local, the garden...
Sarore Sorrow
The morning police raid on Gujjar hutments in Samba is not an isolated incident. Syed Asma talks to the community living under the fear...
Rangoon Refugees
Not all journeys end on a bitter note for Rohingya Muslims fleeing angry Buddhist mobs in Burma. In Kashmir, a few ended up in...
