Outsourcing a Sacrifice
Millions of Muslims converge to perform Hajj in Saudi Arabia. As they offer mandatory animal sacrifices, the meat is supplied to the impoverished African...
Losing Morals?
There has been a gradual rise in the number of abandoned babies admitted at various hospitals in Kashmir. Although childless couples have come forward...
A Marriage, a Tragedy
It was a tragedy of immense proportions. A family in Srinagar’s Bemina locality was busy in preparations for a marriage ceremony when their house...
Pandit Migrants: A Statistical Report
Since 1990, tens of thousands of people who left Kashmir are living the life of migrants at various places outside the Valley. For the...
Children of Lesser God
Giving birth to a defective child invites social stigma. Sadly, both parents and their child become victims of a villainous society. If we can’t...
21 Years Later
Way back in 1991, a fateful woman was abandoned in Jaipur by her careless Kashmiri husband , who took away their infant son and...
THE SCOOTY REVOLUTION
There was a time in Kashmir when women were not encouraged to leave their homes, for the violence had made them easy targets. Now...
The Pedagogy of Sectarianism
It didn’t shake a table when a Sikh posing as a ‘devout Muslim’ led prayers at the fateful Jamia Mosque in central Kashmir’s Sendbal...
The Orphanage Business
Kashmir orphans are a dispossessed lot. Some of them are slowly falling prey to a stressful life spent behind the closed walls of ramshackled...
In the line of ‘faith’
In a land known for its shrines and mosques, construction of a new mosque is no big news. But this mosque is unique not...
Jam them while you pray
Disparate cell phone ringing tones during prayers often irk many inside the mosques. Some mosque management bodies have discovered and installed jammers inside mosques...
What we do in Ramadan
Ramadan is a special month of fasting and prayer. SAMEER YASIR highlights some routines that change during this month – things Muslims do and...
Colossal Callousness
A committed engineer-social activist does what all responsible citizens should. Qurat Masoodi, who believes in integrating orphans and disadvantaged children into the social milieu...
The Mediation Phenomenon
The mediation centre at Saddar Court complex in Srinagar offers a perfect platform for litigants to resolve their disputes outside a lethargic judiciary. SAIMA...
Indo-Tibetans of Kashmir
The Tibetan Muslims living in Kashmir are now a mixed identity. They were ecstatic at seeing the Dalai Lama, their king, visit them in...
