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4.3KBeing 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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Kashmir, Chenab and the opening up of Kashmir to the world
Kashmiris have been treating their brothers and sisters from the Chenab and Pir Panjal Valleys very well since the last three decades,...
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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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‘Chota Shahzaada’, the name given to Mohammad Amir in Srinagar that night, as people danced in frenzy
As the Indo-Pak cricket teams locked horns in the recently concluded Champions Trophy final in England, Kashmir responded with the characteristic deserted...
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A Gorkha girl pens down why she feels for Kashmir
In the past few years, I had been openly standing up against the state brutality in Kashmir, and for their right to...
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“Poor people have no Eid”: Why this Kashmiri orphan girl is returning the charity
Amid the Eid euphoria, one shocking letter has appeared in a Srinagar-based Urdu daily wherein a ten-year-old Kashmiri orphan girl writes how...
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How did the crescent moon and star become associated with the faith of Islam?
Throughout the history, people have used symbols to represent their spiritual beliefs. Today, the star and crescent is commonly accepted as a...
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Lavish Iftar parties, photo-ops & the dying lake
“O son of Adam, spend and I will spend on you” A big hang up of our times — sometimes found even...
