Innocence trampled
A child killed by a father, a minor raped by a neighbour. More and more cases of child abuse are reported from different corners of the valley. Hamidullah Dar reports.
Choosy reservation
A constitutional measure to improve the status of underprivileged classes - reservation in jobs and education - is proving a lopsided measure. Many deserving areas have been left out while many in the list have long acquired facilities available to advanced areas. Hamidullah Dar reports.
Facebooked
Social network sites are here, long before we realised. It could not have been announced more loudly than a murder over a virtual friendship. Shazia Yousuf anlayses the phenomenon.
Lost genius
Super specialist doctors in Kashmir are unable to offer their services properly for lack of proper jobs forcing many others to fend for greener...
In vortex of crime
From a society which believed that skies turn red when a murder is committed, Kashmir was made
Politics of poverty
Former deputy chief minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig struck out his name from proposed BPL list in
Marriage of convenience
A number of Kashmiri men unable to stand in the local marriage market are getting poor Bengali brides, who find grooms without dowry a...
De-Stinging AFSPA
Both the government and opposition are talking loud about the need to repeal Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and expressing helplessness to revoke...
The wheel is slowing
A potter’s wheel once carved out almost all household goods. But now the use of earthenware is limited as polythene and plastic have replaced...
No taboo this
Changing perceptions improve the life of leprosy patients in Kashmir but they want their normal children liberated from their shacks. Shazia Yousuf spends a...
