In Depth
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2.4KIn Kashmir, ‘apolitical’ Panchayat Polls have sparked a political slugfest
What was supposed to be an ‘apolitical’ affair has become a competing political turf war for local unionist camp in Kashmir. The...
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2.4K‘Fax off’ Moment in Kashmir Politics: Much Ado About Nothing
Could it have gotten stranger? The parties who used to wash each other’s dirty linen publicly, joined hands ‘to protect the identity’...
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3.0KThe Aadhaar Card mystery and the pseudo Panchayat candidates of South Kashmir
When a father of three daughters from Chrar-e-Sharief lately wondered how his name surfaced in the Panchayat poll nomination list, many thought...
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13.2KHow World War I busted the White Man’s myth about Kashmir
As World War I completed its 100th year on November 11, 2018, a traditional tribute in the form of war heroics and legends...
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3.6KFatal ‘trespass’ trailed by queries: The case of ‘mentally unsound’ Rayees of Kulgam
A fortnight after being killed for “trespassing”, a mentally-unsound person of Kashmir’s Kulgam continues to make his departure as a matter of mourning and...
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2.1KPills and a stack of spectacles: An Ex-Panch’s prescription to darkness
As Part-I of the series of stories on Panchayat elections in Kashmir, Free Press Kashmir introduces a story of a former Panch...
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4.3K‘Bohemia from Batamaloo’ hustles on the streets and sings his heart out, with socks in mind
He regularly ventures out on the streets, visits offices and knocks at residential gates, exhorting and persuading people to buy his socks....
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4.4KPhoto Essay: Autumn, football and the shade of crimson Chinars
Far from the cheering and jeering cityside football crowd, some kids regularly turn a desolated corner of the Nishat Garden into a...
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3.4KOne in the grave, another in depression: Conflict-torn fate of two sisters in Kashmir’s Kulgam
Oblivious of the new twist in her dead sibling’s case, a depressed sister is still grappling with the ‘grave’ reality of her...
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5.8KJammu Massacre: The saint who became a shrine — Part III
Once done with the slaughter in the plains of Jammu in early November 1947, the marauding rioters started moving to the mountains...
