In Depth
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13.5KStalled Show: How Kashmir’s cinema halls became torture centers
It’s a Friday. Before the day ends, the schools and colleges are closing for the weekend. The offices are emptying. Coats and...
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7.0KBeing a Witness: From scrapbook to photo book
Feeling creative unrest, a Srinagar teen made a scrapbook of newspaper images featuring the summer slain of 2008, only to emerge a...
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12.8KPride and Prestige: Is a lamb’s foetus used to appear elite?
Lamb foetuses are aborted in their mother’s womb to be skinned for a furry and soft piece of pride; a skull cap,...
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7.5KWhy are Indian soldiers killing each other in Kashmir?
A decade long military posturing in Kashmir has it that whenever any ‘war-weary’ soldier gets consumed by a comrade’s gun, it has to...
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3.4KKilling people on all sides: Naa-Maloom Afraad, the anonymous gun
‘Namaloom Afraad’ or unidentified gunmen, not new to Kashmir, came back into the discourse after Lt. Omar Fayyaz’s death. With their recent...
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4.0KWomen in public spaces: Where are the washrooms?
“I have the bull by the horns,” exclaims a hyper-active Dr. Shafqat Khan, the Commissioner-in-charge of Srinagar Municipal Corporation. In a neatly...
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6.3KIn death and defiance: How Kulgam changed
As the prized guerrilla met his end at Kokernag last summer, Kulgam mourned massively. The Intensity of rage in the province presently...
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10.3KThe powerful and the powerless mothers of Kashmir
‘Even though partially, but mothers are to be blamed for over 90 deaths in 2016 and many thousand others before that’ claim...
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4.3KThe year of Burhan: A journalist’s account of what followed the killing
Reporting the conflict was not on my list when I pursued journalism as a passion. I wanted to travel, and write about...
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4.2KThrowback 2016: When even the dead became ‘wanted’ in curfewed Downtown
August 29, 2016. Naid Kadal, Downtown Srinagar, Kashmir… The locality where the “first pro-freedom bullet” was fired before the armed rebellion...
