Mission Interlocutors’ Report
After a yearlong exercise of interacting with ‘all shades of opinion’ in Jammu and Kashmir, the three interlocutors employed by New Delhi in the...
Kashmir Under Dogs
In the past decade there has been an alarming increase in the rabies carrying stray dog population in Kashmir. Correspondingly, more than a hundred...
Unhappily Employed
In last few years, many Kashmiris have been recruited in central paramilitary forces. Some of these recruits share their tales of frustration and disillusionment...
Snatched Livelihood
Almost ten years after the army laid a siege around a cluster of villages in Drugmulla and occupied their paddy fields, the villagers are...
Stress And Suspended Lives
Women in Kashmir are the worst sufferers of conflict. Experts say women generally have less tolerance for trauma. Some Kashmiri women have devised their...
Ceding Territory For Peace
India is ready to cede some territory to Bangladesh in return of the latter’s cooperation in ‘anti-terrorism’ needs and to buy peace with the...
Anna Can Wait
Anna Hazare has not resonated in Kashmir. Alienation in the region is so deep that Kashmir has virtually rejected the entire system and Anna’s...
Rehabilitation or Harassment?
Released or ex-militants have had to continue suffer harassment and indignity long after having endured physical torture during their detention by government forces. After...
Conceiving Hope
Infertility related problems among young men and women all over the world reveal a phenomenon Kashmir has been more prone to because of the...
New Colleges for Votes?
For a few years the state government has been on degree college opening spree in rural areas. But most of the newly established colleges...
Conviction of a Lonely Mother
Sad and lonely but proud Nabza has lost all her four sons to the ongoing conflict in Kashmir. Majid Maqbool tracks the story of...
Stop, Don’t Slap Her
The Governor of Jammu and Kashmir gave his ascent recently to a law against domestic violence six years after the Indian Parliament passed a...
Denying A Level Playing Field
Cement is the only major industrial activity that gets Kashmir a degree of self-sufficiency. But a series of attempts at various levels have been...
Buta Malik Is Out Of Business
History books credit a shepherd, Buta Malik for discovering the Amarnath Cave that attracts tens of thousands of half pilgrims every summer. For decades,...
Mismanaged assets
A heavy influx of tourists has exposed the shortage of hotel rooms in the valley, but trade insiders say that the problem could be...
