In Depth
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4.9KHigh degrees and low wages: The unending misery of Kashmir’s private school teachers
In a society where a large section avail literacy only to impart it to others, as teachers, is perhaps a telling remark...
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4.6KKunan Poshpora to Kathua: Shielding perpetrators through institutional disinformation campaign
The Bar Council of India’s ‘fact-finding’ report on Kathua rape-murder case has brought home the memories of Press Council of India’s report...
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4.6K28 years of heartache ended with heart-attack: The great tragedy of Rehti Begum
Kashmir’s APDP family loses another member today following the death of Budgam’s Rehti Begum due to a heart attack. In her passage,...
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10.8K‘King of Santoor’: Remembering Ustaad Muhammad Abdullah Tibetbaqal
Thirty six years after his passage, Ustaad Muhammad Abdullah Tibetbaqal continues to evoke nostalgia, whenever his musical renditions make it to the...
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11.1KGames, Kashmiri kids no longer play
In the age driven by the new fuel called Data, virtual space is dictating terms almost over everything including the games kids...
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3.5KMyriad shades of the ‘litmus test’ called Kashmiri marriage
Kashmiri marriages have always been an extravagant affair, but over the years, the sacred institution has come under the make-believe societal offensive,...
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13.5KVintage Vespa back on Srinagar streets, courtesy an antique aficionado
His childhood interest in old-fashioned and depleted things created an oddball image of him. But years later when he turned a junked...
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4.3K‘Domestic Violence on the rise’: Where are the Protection Officers, Shelter Homes?
Violence within four walls is reportedly rising and throwing up disturbed homes. To tackle the menace, paucity of protection officers and shelter...
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22.6KTime for ‘Shajkaan’: The springtime wild mushrooms under axe and jackboot
With advent of spring every year, women vendors from Uri and other far-flung areas walk down to Baramulla town with a basket...
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9.2KThe growing tribe of Ankur Sharma: Anatomy of a Pro-rapist ‘Leader’
He wears many hats: social activist, politician, lawyer and engineer. But Kathua’s Ankur Sharma is mainly in news as the pro-rapist outfit...
