Memory
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4.9KBijbehara Massacre: A Survivor Account
Srinagar: Among the 50 odd bodies that BSF piled up at #Bijbehara on Oct 22, 1993, a 13-year-old boy managed to save...
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‘That first crackdown’: The story of a lost childhood
It was one of those long dry, chilly wintry nights. I had just finished reading Amar Chitra Katha, a comic book featuring...
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April 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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Kashmiri Women’s Resistance Day: The perpetual battle to preserve memory
From the browbeaten lanes of Old City to the battered countryside vicinity of Kunan Poshpora, the women of Kashmir have picked up...
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Of Migration and Nostalgia: A Kashmiri Pandit girl’s homecoming hues
New generation of migrated Kashmiri Pandits who mainly visited Kashmir through the memories and musings of their elders often get fascinated by...
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Of migration and nostalgia: A woman’s unending journey of longing for her roots
This day, 28 years ago, many Kashmiri Pandits were preparing to move towards the plains, leaving behind their homes in the politically-charged...
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I was born blonde and I thought it was a curse
After being born blonde, a Srinagar boy had to pass through perceptive tests and trails before he realized that being different isn’t...
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Jammu Massacre: What it meant to be a Muslim woman in Jammu in 1947
Modern history’s least documented massacre that reportedly heaped 2.3 lakh Muslim bodies in Jammu by Nov 1947 is tailed by countless stories...
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Jammu Massacre: The frenzy of Suraiya, and the silence of history
Seven hundred years after Lal Ded would roam around Kashmir naked, in frenzy, reciting words of wisdom, Suraiya would do the same...
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The Widow Colony: Where women tell tales of the Anti Sikh brutality of 1984
As news blared from a dusty old radio in the tea stall outside young Dalprit’s house in Trilokpuri, the area was tensed....
