Posts By Aamir Ali Bhat
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8.2KIn DepthInside a house where Kashmiri Muslims and Pandits share their joys, sorrows
On the day when thousands of migrant Kashmiri Pandits are thronging Tulmul on the annual Kheer Bhawani Mela, a house in Kashmir’s...
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Sheikhpora’s broke winnow-makers are now falling prey to a ‘mystery blindness’
In the recent past, people from Sheikhpora travelled across Kashmir with their handmade winnows. They were much-sought after artisans around. But now, they...
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4.2KConflict
Another scholar militant: ‘Allah sent him to us … We sent him back’
Ever since Burhan Wani’s killing in July 2016 and subsequent Operation All Out in June 2017, the rebel ranks in Kashmir have...
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3.0KConflict
Shopian Killings: The slain ‘human shield’s’ widow recounts the nocturnal terror
A year after the Indian Army used a Budgam weaver as a human shield in a blatant display of a war crime...
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Shopian Killings: When the ‘dirty war’ blurred the line between combatants and civilians
One among the four civilians killed in Shopian on April 1 was returning home after meeting his infant daughter. Another had left...
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The state aggression that bled the peaceful protest at Brakpora
Shortly after (then) Kashmir police chief AK Bhan claimed that his personnel (along with Indian army) led by former counterinsurgent chief Farooq...
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8.0KConflict
Chittisinghpora Massacre: When shadowy gunners in army fatigues widowed 30 Sikh women
This day, 18 years ago, a pack of masked gunmen arrived in dusky Chittisinghpura to slaughter 35 Kashmiri Sikhs. The carnage, coinciding...
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The Slain Shopian Siblings: Even death didn’t do them part
They grew up under one roof sharing different life moments together, until one of them decided to be an insurgent last fall....
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5.2KIn Depth
Meet Shehlla Imran, a Kashmiri girl who chose women welfare over politics
She had an assured shot at politics, but the young and opinionated Shehlla Imran turned it down to focus on women welfare...
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5.2KEnvironment
Meet the Majid Squad, a group that voluntarily cleans filth on Amarnath Yatra routes
Notwithstanding the National Green Tribunal directions, Governor N N Vohra recently decided that a 60-day-long, instead of the earlier 45-day-long, Amarnath Yatra...
