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3.6KA bullet that shattered a young mason’s dreams
Tirelessly working to fulfill his dreams, a young mason from Kashmir’s Islamabad was hit by a bullet in June 2018 and became...
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22.7KTime for ‘Shajkaan’: The springtime wild mushrooms under axe and jackboot
With advent of spring every year, women vendors from Uri and other far-flung areas walk down to Baramulla town with a basket...
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9.7KApril 10, 1993: The day a boat sank with the dead
This day, on April 1993, Srinagar’s trade heartland Lal Chowk went up in flames after the BSF troopers ran amok. After the...
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10.7KNew tastemaker in town: The Everest climber Krushnaa Patil
If you’ve ever been to Books and Bricks (B&B) cafe in Srinagar, chances are that you’ve tasted the food cooked by Krushnaa...
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3.1KThe ‘militant moment’ in the change of guard
Barely a week after Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai became new Tehreek-e-Hurriyat chief, his son fled home to join the militant outfit, Hizbul Mujahideen....
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5.4KMeet Kashmir’s ‘Tyrion Lannister’ who’s enduring the real life ‘Game of Thrones’
Lately when an ace Bollywood director posted a picture on Instagram and Facebook with the tagline, ‘With Tyrion Lannister at Pahalgam festival’,...
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3.5KAmid politicization, how’s UNHCR tackling the Rohingya refugee crisis in Jammu
Even as 5000 Rohingya Muslims are living in slums across Jammu bereft of proper living conditions, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR...
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5.5KBeyond Bipin Rawat’s remarks, Kashmir’s education system does need control
Fearing ‘radicalization’, the Indian army chief lately asked for control in Kashmir’s schools. But beyond the military talk, the Valley-based schools do...
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5.8KA memorial for the man who erected the Gaw Kadal memorial stone
To crystallize the memory of the first militancy-era massacre, a youth erected a memorial stone at Basant Bagh. Years later, after he...
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13.9KThe day before the Gaw Kadal Massacre: What happened inside cordoned Chota Bazaar?
New Delhi finally had its way when Srinagar was handed over to CRPF with Jagmohan’s appointment on Jan 19, 1990. The same...
