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...
Kashmir: 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...
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...
SENSING LIFE WITHOUT BUNKERS
Hussain Danish takes us around Srinagar to feel what life has been like in areas where some of security forces’ bunkers were removed recently....
What LoC!
Four villages in the remote picturesque valley of Gurez, almost treacherous 150 kilometers from Srinagar, have had no milk for past more than 10...
WHO WANTS TO LIVE!
Suicide cases are on the rise in Kashmir with even teenagers as young as 14, attempting suicide. Ibrahim Wani reports on an issue that...
The Cursed Marriages
Weddings in Kashmir have been always held during nights but the rise of armed insurgency and some gruesome incidents forced a change in it....
High Way To Destruction
Kashmir is losing a generation to drugs, with medicinal opiates being the most abused substances to get a high. Social stigmatisation is keeping many...
Caring For Less Privileged
Social service and philanthropy are necessary to take care of the less privileged in the society. With two decades of conflict leaving thousands of...
Home Coming
Two decades after the mass exodus of Kashmiri Pandits, a combo offer of employment and rehabilitation by the state government beckons them to return....
