In Depth
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10.1KKashmir’s AK-47 story
Moscow this past September unveiled the statue of the AK-47 creator Mikhail Kalashnikov to honour the war veteran who gave the world...
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2.6KBraid Chopping as ‘Mass Hysteria’: ‘Why weren’t we crazy a month ago?’
Even as two months have passed without any breakthrough in braid chopping episodes in Kashmir, the theory of ‘mass hysteria’ is still...
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2.7KBraid chopping: An old trick in new times?
Even as chief minister Mehbooba Mufti broke her silence after 100 plus braid-chopping incidents that shocked the valley, her government’s ‘mass hysteria’...
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5.5KThe Bhands of Budgam and their cultural crusade
Beyond the jester’s play, Bhand Pather is known as an expression of the feelings of hostility, isolation, oppression and tyranny at the...
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2.9KWorld Mental Health Day: A psychiatrist’s encounter with war-freaked women in bygone Ikhwan belt
No sooner did the 2010 uprising thaw, a Srinagar-based mental specialist trained by Royal College of Psychiatry, London visited an Ikhwan citadel...
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7.7KShadows of stalking: The unspoken woes of Kashmiri women
With a series of domestic abuses unsettling Kashmir lately, the harrowing harassment experiences are now being voiced like never before. Otherwise brushed...
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8.5KHow conversion of Bemina from flood basin to residential area endangered Srinagar
When the first resident footfall was traced in the flood basin called Bemina way back in the early eighties, hardly anyone sounded...
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7.4KCall for Guantanamo: Is Delhi media deliberately belittling Kashmir’s torture history?
As the pitch to pack Kashmiris to a Guantanamo-type prison got louder in Delhi media circles lately, voices in Valley assert that...
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5.7KSurrender policy in the times of Op All-Out: Is it the return of old demons?
Kashmir police chief flanked by allied forces’ top bosses recently made a surrender offer to insurgents in a joint presser. But if...
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10.4KResistance and Muharram messages: ‘Kashmiri Shia Muslims have always been pro-movement’
Kashmir has come a long way from its ‘La Sharqiya La Garbiya’ days to the present day state of affairs when Burhan...
