In Depth
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5.7KBehind the viral photograph: Wagoora’s teacher-turned-insurgent
Following a midnight encounter at Budgam lately, an old woman’s wailing photograph went viral on social media and was confused with the...
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3.1KThe ‘militant moment’ in the change of guard
Barely a week after Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai became new Tehreek-e-Hurriyat chief, his son fled home to join the militant outfit, Hizbul Mujahideen....
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8.0KKashmiri Women Journalists: Calling it quits even before they start?
After being groomed to be newspersons in different media schools, many women journalists call it quits even before starting their careers in...
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5.5KBeyond the ‘Sorry, Kashmir is Happy’ narrative, Indian journalists’ ‘tightrope walk’ in Valley
Indian media’s portrayal of Kashmir has always fuelled the war of narratives over its protracted conflict. But there is a difference between...
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9.9KChittisinghpora Massacre: When shadowy gunners in army fatigues widowed 30 Sikh women
This day, 18 years ago, a pack of masked gunmen arrived in dusky Chittisinghpura to slaughter 35 Kashmiri Sikhs. The carnage, coinciding...
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4.1KThe ‘Bullet Brain’s’ transition from workmanship to leadership
Between the arrival and the beginning of the youthful defiance of Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai is the trajectory of the man who always...
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3.3KPost-truth politics of the author of the ‘unholy’ alliance
The ex-banker whose ‘economist’ cult was created at the behest of media blitz, would always vouch for a fiscal over political autonomy...
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3.0KIs the ‘Gau Raksha’ campaign choking ‘Bayt-al-mals’ in Kashmir?
After the BJP-led NDA government swept to power at New Delhi in 2014, a spike in cow vigilantism in the mainland India...
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4.9KKamran Yousuf’s tryst with NIA and the fat file of Kashmir’s vicious trail
Bail for the Kashmiri photojournalist in NIA’s flimsy terror case doesn’t mean much in the Valley’s long, cruel experience with New Delhi’s...
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10.8KBashir Kotur’s comedy of errors
His cable TV appearance in early 2000 made him one of the funniest men of Kashmir whose grass-root wisecrack created a laugh...
