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Conflict

For the last many decades, the prevailing conflict impacts every aspect of life in Jammu and Kashmir. This section is the listing of detailed copies that otherwise fall in politics, civil liberty, diplomacy, policy making and other spheres of life.

The city centre in the afternoon. KL Image by Bilal Bahadur

A year after Burhan

The guerrilla group that Burhan Wani gave birth to is a completely different entity by way of evolution and operation. This generation has changed...

Following Fathers To Graves

In south Kashmir that witnessed a spurt in militancy, post-Burhan Wani, Umar Mukhtar traced a couple of rebels who followed the suit of their...

Curious Confrontation

Kashmir still remembers the case of a Maisuma youth, “Mandela”, who shifted his base from a hardcore stone pelter to a young face of...

The Shihlipora Shades

On the 17th anniversary of counter-insurgent Azad Nabi’s killing, Muhammad Younis visited the remote south Kashmir village to understand the logic and the legacy...

Theatrics at LoC

The barter trade allowed across LoC at two points – Uri and Poonch – has been plagued with problems right from its inception. Meanwhile...

The YES Men

The TSD exposé suggested two NGOs were the beneficiaries of the massive funds till General V K Singh’s super-intelligence structure was disbanded. Suhail Ansari...

Bloody Aftermath

After painstaking compilation Saima Bhat comes up with a complete list of post-Burhan Wani killings by bullets in the bloody summer of 2016 The day...
LOC TRADE

Barter’s Fear Factor

Traders who barter select merchandise at two windows on the LoC since October 2008 have managed an overall turnover of Rs 1600 crore since...

Stone Hearted

What kind of a heart one needs to have to confront bullets with stones? This question baffles everyone. Suhail A Shah looks behind balaclavas...

In Maqbool Bhat’s Trehgam

For the last 30 years, Kashmir has been freezing life to remember Maqbool Bhat, the man who was born out of his execution in...
A woman cries as she hugs her brother after his surrender in Rampur

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...

Healing Strokes

A young artist from Sopore, who has seen death from a close range, took refuge in colours to vent his feelings on canvas. Farzana...

Mission Kashmir

Last week when the film Mission Kashmir’s cast celebrated 20 years of the ‘landmark’ film, a federal investigator raided the charity where the protagonist...

Bartering of a year

Started in a hurry, the trans-LoC trade had more hurdles than pedals. Despite government promises of sorting out modalities soon, a year after the...

Bloodied Talks

In last two and half decades almost every highprofile meeting between India and Pakistan is preceded by a daring militant attack. Shah Abbas revisits...