Pellet Debts
After their youngest son was hit by pellets at the peak of 2016 unrest, Rasheed and Wazira Sheikh borrowed a lot of money from...
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...
Guru’s Last Days
Congress government exercised so haste that Tihar jail failed even in arranging a professional hangman to work the gallows for hanging Afzal Guru. TV...
35A vs Ethnic Flooding?
Cutting across the ideological divide, political parties in Kashmir have found a common cause in Article 35(A) of the Constitution of India that right-wingers...
Close Encounters
News of death and destruction are apparently the only two by-products of a gun battle between rebels and the army. One encounter paves way...
‘Congrats, You Got Me’
After keeping the counter-insurgency grid on tenter-hooks for almost seven years, Abu Dujana, the master of deception, was finally killed in a swift operation...
‘My Friend Faizan’
Faizan was the youngest militant to be killed this summer. But why did a class X boy pick up gun? What he wanted to...
Nowhatta Nightmare
Every time Kashmir is on protest, areas surrounding the historic Jamia Masjid are under curfew. Once restrictions are over, tensions pile up making police...
Deadly divide
Separated in birth by a year and in death by 6 kms, sub inspector Feroz Dar and rebel commander Bashir Lashkari belonged to two...
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...
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...
Dehumanised Kashmir
The lynching of Ayub Pandith, a Jammu and Kashmir police officer, has further divided Kashmir’s conflict-torn society. Pandith’s murder was barbaric but it was...
Minor Militants
The latest of the juvenile rebels killed in an encounter was only 15 years of age. He was neither the first to fall to...
‘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...
The Ghost Village
Continued turmoil did not trigger massive demographic upheavals and migrations alone. Jibran Nazir located a village in Kupwara that ceased to exist because population...
