Politics of rehabilitation
They have been returning home to Kashmir in small numbers quietly from the Pakistani side via Nepal, but a larger number may be waiting...
Trapped in the cycle
The chief minister’s amnesty to hundreds of arrested stone throwing protesters of 2010, ‘Eidi from elders to youngsters’ turned out to be a mirage....
Conflict And Chemistry
Militarized conflicts affect every aspect of social and private life. In Kashmir the last two decades have brought about a mental health catastrophe, but...
A Widow’s Life
An overwhelming 91 per cent of widows choose not to remarry in Muslim majority Kashmir as they are stigmatized and their children are not...
Home Alone
A woman bringing up her children on her own is a tough task especially in Kashmir where woman have to face hardships and don’t...
SUICIDES THESE!
Suicide rate in Kashmir has been alarming. But in many cases after thorough investigations suspected ‘murder’ intentions and evidence of abetment by individuals has...
Pounds, Dollars, and Dinars
A large destitute population notwithstanding, J&K receives only a fraction of the foreign contributions coming into India every year. Kashmir Life profiles some of...
SPECTRE AND IMPUNITY
Every time a fresh debate surrounding removal of AFSPA is energised, the army raises a spectre to oppose it. Past all other arguments, the...
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...
Grave Dreams of a Gravedigger
Atta Mohammad Khan, who has buried more than 230 bodies of unknown people, every evening brings alive gruesome memories of mutilated faces. A first...
Horrors of Anonymous Kills
the reports of thousands of unidentified graves of unknown people in Poonch horror stories of the anonymously killed are also coming alive. A Kashmir...
Indifference, Anger And Hope
Away from the ruckus in the state assembly and competing nationalistic politics around the discourse of clemency to Afzal Guru, his home in a...
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...
Kashmir cablegate
The complex dynamic of Kashmir conflict is difficult for many to understand. But scores of leaked US cables bring out an assessment that is...
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...
