In Depth
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15.9KHer mother’s voice
While growing up, Mehmeet Syed found her mother’s support behind the innate musical talent that she had. Years later, as she was...
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8.5KKashmir’s Scotland connection: The hospital in ‘Service to Mankind’ since 1902
Among the legacies that foreign missionaries left in Kashmir is the splendid and historic hospital complex located in the Sarnal area of ...
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4.2KPostpartum depression: The ghost that walks the mind of mothers
The bus rattles against the uneven road toward Jahangir Chowk. The mother tsks in irritation again. “Azim!” She holds the boy tightly...
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5.6KLove Fail: Inside the ‘war zone ward’ where ravaged lovers finally admit defeat
As a trauma centre, Srinagar’s SMHS hospital has been catering to the regular rush of young, jilted and poisoned lovers since long...
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4.8KOf travelling hearts and contemporary poets: Reading Sonnet Mondal
Poetry being a mellow saga of traveling hearts and dimensions has pushed poets over centuries to travel and traverse across borders to...
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8.0KVanishing Paddy Fields of Gogo land
How faulty planning, unsustainable growth and swelling ‘security’ base can wreak havoc upon a simple agrarian community can be best understood from...
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3.0KWhat does it take to believe that your childhood friend has died?
How do you write the obituary when the deceased was a soulmate? How do you make your heart understand that he is...
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5.4KHow a gunfight destroyed my best friend’s home
On June 29, when counter-insurgents arrived in Pulwama’s Thamuna area, they ended the gunfight on the usual note: by razing the residence...
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3.3KA village weaver who became an abandoned political tool
Whenever political parties hold conventions in the capital city of Srinagar, a horde of participants are often ferried from the countryside to...
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5.6KDivided by War, reunited by Web: The Partition saga of two Rajouri sisters
Even after being separated and confined to the two divided parts of Kashmir due to the 1947 Indo-Pak War, two Rajouri sisters...
