In Depth
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13.9KChapter Four: What fuelled Kashmir’s Maqbool Butt
Eight years in Tihar Jail’s captive chambers had already changed the ‘romantic’. Unlike his yesteryear’s Micawberish conviction, as his detractors would dismiss...
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11.9KChapter Three: What fuelled Kashmir’s Maqbool Butt
Even after the two teen Qureshis—Hashim and Ashraf—would hijack an Indian Fokker plane ‘Ganga’ at 1305 hours on 30 January, 1971, with...
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11.1KChapter Two: What fuelled Kashmir’s Maqbool Butt
As Trehgam’s defiant legacy had finally found it’s heir-apparent, the villagers would regularly watch a wiry, opinionated boy praying five times a...
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16.6KTracing the ‘Kashmiri spark’ behind the Iranian Revolution
As the world is observing the 39th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution, many in Kashmir are recounting the preparations to host the exiled...
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12.2KWhat fuelled Kashmir’s Maqbool Butt
Born in feudalism-infested Kashmir where tyranny was an order of the day, Maqbool Butt demonstrated his defiant nature quite early in his...
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5.8KBengali Muslims in Kashmir and their ‘joy’ in the war-torn mountains
Thousands of miles away from home, from the land of warmth, after living a life-in-transit, many Bengali migrant workers have found a...
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5.5KBeyond Bipin Rawat’s remarks, Kashmir’s education system does need control
Fearing ‘radicalization’, the Indian army chief lately asked for control in Kashmir’s schools. But beyond the military talk, the Valley-based schools do...
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3.9KLeft to fend for himself: How a Kashmir hospital is failing a hemophilic patient
Since May 2017, a hemophilic man has been living in a paralytic state at a Sarai in SMHS Hospital. His deteriorating condition...
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7.7KA rendezvous with a Kashmiri artisan couple
At a time when escalating unemployment rate is forcing the highly educated youth of Kashmir to apply or settle for Class 4...
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5.9KMeet the Majid Squad, a group that voluntarily cleans filth on Amarnath Yatra routes
Notwithstanding the National Green Tribunal directions, Governor N N Vohra recently decided that a 60-day-long, instead of the earlier 45-day-long, Amarnath Yatra...
