In Depth
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4.7KHow illegal pursuit of riverbed material is threatening the habitat of Kashmir’s trout fish
In complete violation of the JK Fisheries Act, illegal extraction of sand and boulders from various trout streams of Bandipora, and adjoining...
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4.5KThe girl in pink dress and the ‘lost womb’ depression in Kashmir
Losing motherhood to ‘tactless’ surgical procedures is creating a new mental crisis in Kashmir. In this piece, the author maps the miserable...
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10.2K‘I often come home crying’: Eve-teasing, the ‘unexorcised demon’ of Kashmir
New Crime Branch Gazette has painted a very grim picture of the Jammu and Kashmir vis-à-vis crime against women. The report says...
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5.2K‘Hum Sab Kab Milenge’: Wrong turns, crossovers and heartbreaks at the LoC
Another desperate bid surfaced at the Line of Control when an Uri woman ended her missing status recently by dialing her family...
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3.8KThe messed-up city and its man-in-charge
With the revival of a top office in Srinagar earlier this year, the controversial wetland remark sent a celebrity cop on an...
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3.1KA new ‘punch’ in Panchayat: Tobacco packets, disgruntled loyalists and re-polling in Kashmir
As New Delhi mulls Panchayat re-election in 50 percent vacant constituencies in the state due to lack of quorum, many previously elected...
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3.2KHe left a sweet taste during bitter times: The legend of ‘Kabab wale Chacha’
Every dawn and dusk, a non-local Kashmiri walks through the lanes of Downtown, Srinagar to sell Frymes (Fried flour Kebabs), making him...
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6.3KIn ‘the country without a post office’, this postman kept delivering letters
When Kashmir’s celebrated English poet Agha Shahid Ali was ‘seeing Srinagar from New Delhi’ amid communication blockade in his homeland during nineties,...
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4.5KSrinagar’s sordid saga: How Bemina choked the city
A slew of summertime flood predictions cast a looming shadow on Srinagar where battle for spaces has long turned flood basins into...
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2.7KAs Raj Bhavan plays ‘bandmaster’, New Delhi’s old Kashmiri loyalists feel ‘cheated’
Amid New Delhi’s unyielding Kashmir policy, the regional unionist camp—especially GoI’s traditional diehards—are decrying the denied electoral space and ‘split mandate’ with...
