Opinion
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4.2KRemembering September 2014 Floods in Poetry
I) No glitter in the eyes behind pane of the battered window, The consternation of my heart breaks a saucer...
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3.0KA day before Eid, a One Day Peace
For a day or two, the air in and around Srinagar might almost seem devoid of the memories of tear gas and...
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4.1KLolab: A panopticon
It is morning in late summer. The rain pours down, unceasing. The water accumulated in the puddles ripple delicately. From the window...
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4.3KFinding Nasir two thousand kilometres away from Kashmir
It went on forever, until I could take it no more, the persistent banging of the door and a relentless hammering in...
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7.1KA History of Abuse at ‘Leading’ Schools of Kashmir
Slap, Kick, Punch, Spit. Oh, these kids. Snap, crack, bang, grunt. Oh, these rogue kids, I tell you. These so-called students and...
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3.7KNuclear apocalypse: Trump and Kim should not hold the world hostage
Not too far away from Seattle, Washington there are eight ballistic-missile submarines carrying the world’s large shipments of nuclear weapons. The 560-foot-long...
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4.3KOpinion: When Stones Boomerang
The recent move by the PDP-BJP government to kick-start public water transport facility in Srinagar on trial basis was the second such...
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3.7KTriple Talaq must go, but not by a right-wing intervention propagating Hindu supremacy
The welfare of Muslim women is a must, but is the issue of triple Talaq being used to push for Uniform Civil...
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5.4KWhere villagers are hostage to militarisation: Gurez, the barbed paradise
I didn’t even know that a place called Gurez exists in Kashmir. When my close friend from work offered me a trip...
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2.5KAl-Araqeeb village: Palestinian Bedouins refuse to surrender 116 times
On August 1, the Palestinian Bedouin village of Al-Araqeeb was destroyed for the 116th time. As soon as Israeli bulldozers finished their ugly...
