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9.3K‘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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7.8KWith 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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7.1K#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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4.9KWhy 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...
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3.6KWhat preceded the flaring haystacks: Hajin’s Horror through an eyewitness
When Indian army’s armoured vehicles pulled over in Hajin’s Parrey Mohalla at noontime of Dec 6, 2017, the ensued street confrontation caught...
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4.8KMeet Daghpora’s Swiss daughter-in-law who runs a talent-harnessing school, and loves Haakh
It was a typical love story that started when a Ganderbal man met a Swiss tourist in South India. 15 years later,...
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4.6KThe dead silence that prevails over Batkoot’s bloody Sunday
Since March 1997, the Mir family of Batkoot has been grappling with recurrent flashes of the butchery that saw their beloveds being...
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6.8KKabir Chacha: The prosperous trader who became the attendant of unclaimed bodies in Kashmir
When nameless bodies became the damned feature of the war of attrition in Kashmir during the nineties, many people across the Vale...
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8.9KJammu’s forgotten massacre: A tale of two ethnic cleansings
November of 1947, the state of Jammu and Kashmir, where Gandhi saw a ray of hope, was a tumultuous time for its...
