That Bloody Sunday
As Shopian killings paralysed Kashmir for almost a week, yet again, Umar Mukhtar spent crisis-time down south in locating and meeting the families of...
Dateline SMHS
With their covered eyes and sullen faces, the young men admitted to various hospitals in Srinagar for various kind of injuries, offer a distinctly...
Understanding Stake-holding
It is very difficult to decipher why there are lot many political parties in Kashmir. But it is quite easy to link the proliferation...
Smouldering Shopian
The smallest district in J&K but one of the most prosperous ones, Shopian has gone twice into mass mournings this year. After the six...
The Dual Rule
As the residents from villages straddling the LoC moved for shelter in Uri, they had tons of tragedies and tales to talk about when...
Sabzar Enigma
A bookish man who stayed away from tensions, was frightened by tear-smoke shells, spent eight years in studying; far away from his picturesque home...
Scholar with a gun
When Lolab’s Mannan Wani drove from AMU to join rebels, everybody within and outside the security grid started asking: “Why did an AMU scholar...
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...
Shot In Shopian
A brief gun-battle triggered a chain of events that consumed seven lives including two young men who joined militancy in different situations, as two...
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...
Dismissed Pelters
Hiding stick to pave way for the carrot, the government recently announced an amnesty for the first time stone pelters. But there are various...
Lethpora Lessons
By Khursheed Wani
In Kashmir, a gun battle connected 2017 with 2018. Apparently routine, the encounter actually demonstrates the drastic changes on ground zero.
As 2017...
Erasing A Village
The roaring Neelum river on the banks of which once lived a village eventually separated them forever. Then a new situation reunited the two...
Kabir Chacha
Once a major character in managing the load of conflict on Srinagar streets, Kabir Sheikh, father of slain JKLF leader Hamid, died on November...
Rebel Cops?
Occasionally, some of the young men recruited by various uniformed services in Kashmir desert and join the rebels. Though a proper investigation by their...
