Memory
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1.7KThe day Jhelum, the poet’s muse, went loose…
Feeling the 2014 deluge of Kashmir a thousand miles away Doha (Qatar): The river, which has always been an inspiration to...
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2014 Deluge: I was safe, but there were others to be saved
“Dear son, you know the situation is more than worse in most parts of the city and we’re lucky on our part...
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Guns, votes, and eight year olds
I had stopped to catch a breath. My cousin Dawood needed to breathe. Big name for a six year old, Dawood. Mud...
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Detailing the dreaded 90s: The varsity’s nightmarish newsprints
Part of history, and horror now, the happenings of the 90s—when military operations like ‘Catch and Kill’ would subject the rebellious population...
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Being 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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The 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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‘We too have a Burhan Wani in our village. He is our friend’
It happened just a couple of days after Burhan Wani was killed along with his associates in the southern part of Kashmir...
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That long summer night when Burhan Wani died
I can hear gun-barrel thuds. Everyone around me is in shock. Ours is the house packed with mourners. My grandmother has passed...
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When a grenade exploded in front of me and I lived!
Srinagar: Recalling the fateful day of March 2004, when I escaped death by a miracle, makes me feel both supremely favoured and...
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Memory: The elders would often protect us with their bodies
That fateful evening of the early 90’s is still as fresh a memory in my mind, that recalling it, sends shivers down...
