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7.9KInside the ‘silent before the storm’ world of Kashmiri Fidayeen
After two Kashmiri Fidayeen stormed the southern military training centre at the turn of the New Year, the Valleys’ military landscape is...
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12.3KDenied a scholarship, this Kashmiri girl decided to expose ‘Favouritism’ at SAARC
Her meritorious journey faced a hiccup when lesser deserving candidates managed to get the SAARC medical scholarship over her. But rather than...
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2.7KTo the Sound of Kettledrums: The Prophet’s birthday, on December 30, in Jakarta
The night is dark in Bekasi, 14 miles east of Jakarta. Last daily worship of Muslims, the Isha prayer, has just finished....
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9.6KThe Turks of Old City and their 500-yr-old crumbling ‘aroma’ empire
Followers of Mir Syed Ali Hamdani, the Kozgars came to Kashmir from Turkey some 500 years ago and settled in Old Srinagar...
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5.2KWhy ‘tourism mascots’ Adnan Sami and Lucky Ali failed to lift the mood at Ghat No. 27
Using Music for politics, this fall, the Indian musicians arrived in the security-ringed SKICC to entertain a select few, while the Shikara...
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9.4K‘Kalle Kharab’: Meet the Kashmiri girl branding Kashmiri proverbs as style statements
In a bid to counter ‘westernization’ and promote Kashmiri culture, a 30-year-old Sarnal girl of South Kashmir’s Islamabad has started her brand...
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7.9KWith a Black Belt round the corner, Kashmir’s Thang-Ta champ is losing her game
As a woman of strength, she would regularly beat eve-teasers on Srinagar’s streets till she took her fights inside the Thang-Ta fields...
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7.2K#JournalismIsNotACrime: Why Kamran Yousuf is not Paul Comiti
A 42-year-old French journalist Paul Comiti was arrested by Jammu and Kashmir Police on December 10, 2017, while preparing to film in...
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2.2KNeutrality in the times of war – Part I
Ages had gone by since he had lost touch with his liberal pandit friends, now living in different parts of the world....
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5.0KWhy rewarding Rajasthan psychopath highlights an existential crisis for Indian Muslims
When Nathuram Godse assassinated Mahatma Gandhi, “women from respectable Hindu families sent him a sweater they had made for him.” 70 years...
