This Eid : Let Us Introspect
Mature societies have one thing fundamental to their growth, strength, sanity and vibrancy: introspection. It works at multiple levels starting with family, housing settlements...
Women in woods
Wazwan country surely knows the grammar and the complicacies that go into the making of the feast but not the costs mutton production entails...
For Wamiq’s Justice
In 2010 teenager Wamiq Farooq’s killing was mourned across Kashmir. His family vowed to bring killers to justice. But the fight for justice against...
Vexed Volunteers
As dead bodies kept piling with the prelude of armed struggle in Kashmir in 1989, washing and burying the dead became the order of...
Love is Blind
It was the end of the world for young Amir when he lost his eyesight during the 2010 unrest. He resigned himself to his...
Wheel, Wails And Veil
In an old city house built a century back live three women from three generations. The nonagenarian granny earns on the spinning wheel to...
An Evolving Family
What started as a monthly exercise to mark their protest against forced disappearances of their loved ones, has now become a stress buster for...
Invisible Imams
While religion evokes emotions and generosity among Kashmiris the people who preach it struggle to feed their families. Once highly respected class of the...
Decontrol Travel
Though fundamental to the life in civilized world, the passport has become a rare document for the Muslims living in India’s Muslim majority state....
Wings to Fly
Straight out of a fairy tale but with more twists and turns. It was by sheer luck that Sufaira Jaan a young orphan was...
Born Orphan
Every child born in Kashmir during 90’s opened his eyes in hostility. In most of the cases the first thing they witnessed was death,...
Pigeon Passion
Pigeon-keeping, cherished by Zamaindars and Nawabs of sub-continent is also dear to a certain section of Kashmiri society. Keeping pigeons as a hobby is...
Night Out
The fear psychosis that would force people to go indoors before dusk in the last two decades seems to be vanishing from public psyche...
Language of Love
After her husband’s death, Aziza tried hard to come to terms with the loss, but she couldn’t. With nobody except a pair of goats...
Agha Sr
At 95, Agha Nasir Ali, a flamboyant civil servant who was known for his dressing sense and decision making powers spends his days reminiscing...
