Village Destabilising Culture
For the last two decades, J&K’s security grid raised an almost 29000-member army of VDCs across the Jammu region by training and arming selective...
Chenab Divides
Recent communal clashes in Kishtwar have brought VDCs back into focus. While Muslims question their relevance in militancy-free Chenab valley, Hindus feel they are...
Maimed Meadow!
Spread over around 3000 kanals of land, Tosa Maidan meadow in district Budgam was taken over by army on lease in 1964 for conducting...
Trading Nightmares
Recent onion crisis briefly brought LoC trade back into focus when truckloads of onions reached Kashmir markets and eased soaring prices. But ban and...
‘Polarised’ J&K
The ideological crack between the three regions of Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir has become too prominent to be ignored as the state is all...
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....
TOSAMAIDAN: Waste Land
Tosa Maidan, a beautiful meadow converted into firing range by army during 60s became death trap for scores of locals as unexploded shells lay...
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,...
Quarter Century Later
Twin blasts in Srinagar in 1988 summer marked the beginning of militancy in Kashmir. R S Gull revisits the situation that triggered a change...
Cruel Crisis
In the aftermath of Gool when J&K was mourning from Gujar Nagar to Kargil, sectarian clashes erupted in the Valley’s belly. As violence raged...
The Conundrum At Kunan
From a day long protest at the peak of militancy in 1991 to the return in sharp public focus in 2013, the Kunan case...
Bond of Faith
The ripples of Gool massacre were felt across the Pir Panjal as Kashmir valley erupted in protests bringing closer the historically estranged people. Shah...
The Kunan Questions
The remote Kupwara village is a milestone in Kashmir’s tragedy. For the last more than two decades, the entire anger is directed towards the...
Mountain Massacre
The killings in Gool, a Godforsaken bowl nestled in the Pir Panchal peaks, offered residents a day to be on roads for the first...
“For around 15 minutes, nobody knew who is where and who is doing what....
State’s junior Home Minister Sajjad Ahmad Kichloo led the state government team to Gool that was at the peak of crisis. He spoke to...
