In Depth
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3.6K‘Waiting for Godot’: Kashmir’s information activists on a wild goose chase?
Activists feel replacing J&K RTI Act 2009 with the Central RTI Act has only weakened the RTI Movement in Kashmir. A promising...
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6.0KInside Kashmir’s human trafficking hell—where minors are rescuing minors
If those part of child rescue operations are to be believed then Kashmir has lately become ‘a hotbed for human trafficking’. But...
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7.5K‘We had hope’: How Kashmiris tackled the communication crisis in 2019
Apart from the mother’s misery and the lovers’ longing, those summer messages in the mountains engaged all and sundry. The long-awaited dispatch...
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5.3KThe aftermath: What happened in Kashmir after August 5, 2019
On August 5, 2019, Kashmir was put under a communication blackout after the Parliament of India, approved the splitting of the state...
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3.8K‘They’ve ruined our lives’: JK’s CIC Operators facing official excuses?
The CIC operators put the blame on the General Administration Department (GAD) for repeatedly “denying” the approval for their regularization despite having...
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4.5KHolding fort with fortitude: Kashmir’s homeless homemakers
Military operations against militants in residential areas of Kashmir often turn a home into a pile of rubble leaving behind an insolent...
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4.0K‘There is no transportation’: Cherry farmers of Kashmir face pandemic brunt
Despite a good cherry crop in Kashmir, for the second consecutive season, mobility and market restrictions imposed by the pandemic have put...
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10.6KThe ignored exoduses of Kashmiri Muslims—Part I: Slavery and subjugation
The word “exodus” has become almost rhetorical in the Kashmiri political discourse, however, the political connotations underpinning it have largely ignored the...
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6.4KLife in Srinagar—Part I: Pathos and Pollution of Dal Lake
Despite its indigenous Hanji community fighting the protracted battle to protect and preserve their centuries-old identity, over 40 percent of houseboats vanished...
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6.5KWhy Agha Shahid Ali’s new biography is a loose bag of emotions
Shahid is shown like any other human being who has the zest to perfect his writing and reach the zenith like an...
