In Depth
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1.8KDistress and drags: Inside the valley of smoke
There has been a complex picture of smoking patterns since the 2019 lockdown in Kashmir. The winter sunlight gently hits the ground,...
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Disloyalty, fake pride and a vengeful huff: How toxicity turned acidic in Kashmir
“Rubbing her hands on her burning face and eyes, she dropped her bag and fruits she had bought for her ailing mother.”...
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Pricks in bosom: Fehmeeda hesitated, Shameema didn’t—Kashmir’s response to cancer
How two siblings handled the same disease differently and met two different ends. Fehmeeda was fasting when she felt mild pricks in...
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I will come with a lighthouse: A saga of two Ks
‘I was intrigued by the relation of the book with Kashmir, its striking reference to “Welcome to heaven on earth”.’ Sayan Aich...
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From ‘Soneh Gobur’ to shame—Inside Afzal’s abusive world
One can only wish that Afzal was just one. But Afzals abound in Kashmiri society. Over the years, thousands of Kashmiri youth...
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Wailing witnesses: The Chinars of Kashmir
Chinars! What must have passed under their comfortable shades, of men assembling at noon complaining of toils, admitting thankfulness, women solemnly swearing...
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Throwback to 1950s—when friends became foes
Stark similarities have surfaced in Kashmir where a certain development doctrine has evoked the dusted document. Following the abrogation of Article 370,...
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How conflict became cancer for a Kashmiri mother
On a wintry day in Kashmir, a woman named Misra, conversed with a portrait, in a rundown neighborhood of the capital city...
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Sahitya spotlight: Did they just confuse Kashmiri criticism with chronology?
Authored as ‘biography’ and awarded as criticism, one of Sahitya winners lately failed to do justice with the spirit of the literary...
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Inside Kashmir’s animal farm—where two legs are too good
Creating a sustainable way of living amid growing consumerism and adulteration, two siblings from Srinagar have come up with a food forest...
