In Depth
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4.3KPlay it like Sopore: ‘Night cup’ brings local football fever back to the Apple Town
After giving Kashmir prominent football players who would keep the spectators on the edge of their seats, Sopore’s soccer spectacle returned this...
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3.7KHazratbal’s wonder women — who brave sun, snow and rain to sustain their families
With sweat dripping down their foreheads and decades of experience in their pocket, they never vacillate in carrying out their task in...
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6.0KMeet the two women putting Kashmiri cuisine on tables around the world
Driven by the motto of promoting Kashmiri cuisine and food outside the valley, two Kashmiri cousins have come together to set up the...
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6.2KView from the ragpickers’ shanties: ‘We feel much safer here’
Non-local ragpickers who scrounge for trash find conflict zone called Kashmir ‘safer’ than ‘shining’ mainland India. Even though they live shabbily and...
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5.1KA teacher ‘shaken’ by October 27, 1947
With the arrival of the Indian Army, lives of Kashmiris changed. One among them was a village teacher living on the outskirts...
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4.1KFrom Fort to Fortress: A trek to remember
The Afghan-era fort in the Old City might be sightseers’ wonder, but given how indifference has reduced it to a rundown barrack betrays the...
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3.8KIs Govt’s amnesty for ‘5,500 first-time offenders’ lost in ambiguity?
On December 31, 2017, J&K government announced amnesty for 5,500 “first-time offenders” for the year 2016-2017. But it is still not clear...
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6.4KWhen a single bullet silenced a pregnant mother and her unborn child in Pulwama
Days after a pregnant woman and her unborn child was killed in “cross-firing” inside her courtyard in Pulwama, her utensils are still...
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2.9KCarnage at Kulgam: ‘It was so sudden that we thought we’ve been bombed’
A chilling reminder of how turmoil is escalating in Kashmir lately came from Kulgam where civilians were consumed as cannon-fodder by a...
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7.9KBijbehara Massacre: A Survivor Account
Srinagar: Among the 50 odd bodies that BSF piled up at #Bijbehara on Oct 22, 1993, a 13-year-old boy managed to save...
