The Jail In Neighbourhood
As the UT administration shifted the detained political class from a Boulevard Hotel to the Lawmakers’ Hostel, apparently for the winters, their families were...
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...
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...
Kashmir’s Own 9/11
As unionists and pro-freedom leaders have come together to echo fears of political radicalisation among the youth, there is little doubt that the decision...
Village Destabilizing Culture
For the last two decades, J&K’s security grid raised almost 29000 member army of VDCs across Jammu region by training and arming selective sections...
Mochu: Living Memories
What happened in Kashmir during 90s has left lasting scar on peoples' lives. The events happened so quickly that most of suffering remained unrecorded....
STONES AND SILENCE
They are the accused stone-pelters. Their trials in the district courts have lingered on while they wait for others, who are facing PSA, to...
The Killing Entrepreneur
As counter-insurgency became the main priority of the government, it created its own stars. In the Chenab Valley, far away from Srinagar and Jammu,...
BLOCKADE AND AFTER
Last summer, as Kashmir rose to undo any future threat of economic blockade, traders seemed determined to regain control over the trade and open...
Seven Mournings
Whether or not the post-encounter explosion at Laroo was a violation of the 2012 SOP is a matter of investigation. But Farzana Nissar visited...
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...
Brothers in dark
After they were blinded in 2016 summer, they struggled in hospitals to manage their vision but failed. Then they survived on the sympathies, kind...
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...
‘Foreigner’ Returns
At 11, poverty forced him to flee home and a theft landed him in Lahore. Since then more than sixty years eclipsed. As the...
Two Bullets, One Tragedy
The two boys were neighbours who would play volleyball on two sides of the net. Eventually one landed in police and another in private...
