In Depth
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3.5KThreats, polarisation and call of duty before the outrage: The long road to #JusticeForAsifa
It has been more than three months since the brutalised body of an 8-year-old girl, from the nomadic muslim community of Bakkerwals,...
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8.6KRogue support shielding Kathua rape and murder accused: What does it mean?
After the police charge-sheet into Kathua rape and murder case involving an eight-year-old nomad Muslim girl revealed chilling details, a barrage of...
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7.4KMeet comrade Gulshan Majeed, the Naxalite movement’s bygone Kashmir campaigner
At a time when a certain comrade is creating a buzz in town, a textbook Marxist of yore recounts the Red movement’s fate...
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9.6KApril 10, 1993: The day a boat sank with the dead
This day, on April 1993, Srinagar’s trade heartland Lal Chowk went up in flames after the BSF troopers ran amok. After the...
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3.6KShopian Killings: The slain ‘human shield’s’ widow recounts the nocturnal terror
A year after the Indian Army used a Budgam weaver as a human shield in a blatant display of a war crime...
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2.6KShopian Killings: When the ‘dirty war’ blurred the line between combatants and civilians
One among the four civilians killed in Shopian on April 1 was returning home after meeting his infant daughter. Another had left...
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2.0KUnderstanding the ‘olive branch’ politics of the head of Unified Command
Today as chief minister Mehbooba Mufti completed her two years in office, her reign remains mired in crisis, chaos and controversies. Cutting...
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7.1KThe state aggression that bled the peaceful protest at Brakpora
Shortly after (then) Kashmir police chief AK Bhan claimed that his personnel (along with Indian army) led by former counterinsurgent chief Farooq...
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7.2KThe tale of a non-Kashmiri daughter-in-law caught between law and in-laws
Hope for a happier life and a more comfortable future brought Nishat Ara, a 39-year-old woman from Lucknow, the place she grew...
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10.6KNew tastemaker in town: The Everest climber Krushnaa Patil
If you’ve ever been to Books and Bricks (B&B) cafe in Srinagar, chances are that you’ve tasted the food cooked by Krushnaa...
