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...
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...
IMPRISONED SCHOLARLY
Thousands of people were jailed in Kashmir since 1990’s. Their miserable lives in confinement notwithstanding; scores of them converted their cells into study centers...
The Grace of Charity
Orphans and destitute widows pose a huge moral challenge to the people in Kashmir. The society has responded through personal and private institutional efforts...
Orphan brothers
by Syed Asma
A 12-year old boy greets this reporter in a submissive voice, sits in a chair, looks uncomfortable and rarely take his eyes...
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...
Language And Times
Kashmiri language has evolved in recent times by accepting words and phrases that had nothing to do with the native spoken Kashmiri. It has...
Inheriting Language of Turbulence
August 2011 marks the beginning of 24th year of the militancy in Kashmir, a phenomenon that did not only devour a generation in its...
