The Addiction Menace
To escape from the fostering stress and trauma, many people caught in a whirlpool of violence in Kashmir over the last two decades found...
In Times of Peace
As India and Pakistan trade barbs over the brutalization of their soldiers in renewed hostilities on LoC, Sameer Yasir treks to the non-descript Charunda...
Parried Peacemakers
In the heightened tensions between India and Pakistan on the LoC, the United Nations Military Observers Group for India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) is unable...
Rape: A LARGER REALITY
R S GULL
Ever since the victim of a beastly gangrape in Delhi aroused concerns of the middle class, almost every body is trying to...
Survival Tales
Trained across the LoC, they fought in Kashmir, were jailed and set free. Some of them surrendered too. But that didn’t end the uncertainty...
LOST IN TRANSLATION
Ever since the birth of Kashmir conflict, the leadership cutting across ideological divides have traditionally embarked on ambitious dispute- resolution trips to Islamabad. As...
The Daughter
Caught in the vortex of multi-polar violence, Razia Sultan’s fight to trace her disappeared father on both sides of LoC is of epic proportions....
Cementing The Divide
As experts are flying to Srinagar with suggestions and ideas, the invisible LoC is expected to shed a shaky fence for a stronger, impregnable...
Till Death
The J&K High Court ruling which upheld the ‘imprisonment for life’ sentence of the incarcerated separatist, Ashiq Hussain Faktoo, has put the ball in...
TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE
Incarcerated for nearly 17 years in Delhi’s Tihar jail, two youth from Kashmir, who were falsely implicated for their involvement in the 1996 Lajpat...
“We Struggled and God Helped Us”
Lawyer Shabir A Salaria is one of rare survivors of 1947 massacres who become J&K advocate general twice and even went to the parliament....
VALLEY OF TEARS
Ocean of Tears is the first government funded documentary on Kashmir's human rights crisis. In anticipation of its maiden screening,120000 people watched it. Shams...
Chasing A Mirage
A group of Baramulla youth crossed over to Pakistan in 1990 to receive arms training. One of them was Tariq. After 22 years, Tariq...
The ‘Other Side’ of Romance
Once they crossed the LoC, Kashmiri youth were the new heroes in Pakistani society. Many married, raised families and lived a happy life. As...
Lost Faith
Ever since the conflict broke out in Kashmir valley, north Kashmir’s Palhalan village has been at the forefront of violence. Beneath a deceptive calm,...
