Opinion

Opinion: A look at the Himalayan territories explains China’s interest in Kashmir

China’s remarks hinting that it could send its army into Kashmir, after India sent forces into Bhutan’s Dhoklam plateau, could mean many things...

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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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The Lamentations of a Sombre Sky: In conversation with author Manan Kapoor

The Lamentations of a Sombre Sky is a story of Inayat, a Kashmiri teenage girl. It is a story of tragedies and...

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Book Review: The lamentations of a Sombre Sky by Manan Kapoor

Book: The Lamentations of a Sombre Sky Author: Manan Kapoor Publisher: Frog Books (www.leadstartcorp.com) Pages: 249 Price: 250 INR Genre: Fiction The...