All posts tagged "Featured"
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8.0KLiteratureThe Shaahid and the Shahiid: A tribute by Nawaz Gul Qanungo
Half a decade before the Jawaharlal Nehru University would erupt and subsequently come under fire for hosting a talk about The Country Without...
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6.3KSocietyTenacious Ten: Meet Kashmir’s wheelchair basketball team who rose above ‘spine-chilling’ disabilities
They were happily leading their lives until spinal injuries reduced them into a bunch of ‘non-visible’ wheelchair beings. In their hour of...
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6.9KFeatureKabir Chacha: The prosperous trader who became the attendant of unclaimed bodies in Kashmir
When nameless bodies became the damned feature of the war of attrition in Kashmir during the nineties, many people across the Vale...
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9.0KHistoryKashmir’s Partition Woes: When the emerging frontiers ravaged the historic Yarkand Sarai
A series of stories detailing the grisly events of 1947 Partition recently made rounds across India and Pakistan. In Kashmir, such stories...
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12.0KEducationThe systematic downfall of the historic National School
Amid the recurrent assault on the historic city of Srinagar whose heritage sites and buildings are being redone in the name of...
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7.1KIn DepthPandit Peers of Seer Hamdan
Since decades now, swarms of people have been turning up in South Kashmir’s Seer Hamdan to get faith-healing from the non-migrant Kashmiri...
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3.9KConflictOf vanished ‘ghosts’ and braid-choppers, meet the man who ended the nocturnal terror
Sudden appearance and subsequent disappearance of braid choppers recently reminded many of the ‘ghosts’ of the nineties who surfaced amid bloodcurdling campaign...
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4.4KConflictThe ‘musical’ horrors of Ganderbal’s highland house
Since the frozen day of Feb 1, 1993, Mohammad Ali has been living down in the mouth. Every time he walks past...
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7.8KIn DepthDr. Farooq Abdullah: The ‘Independent Kashmir’ baiter’s brushes with ‘Azadi’ camp
The mercurial Farooq Abdullah whom Indira Gandhi once feared for ‘second partition of India’ has raked a new controversy by dismissing the...
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4.1KConflictThe pellet-paralysed world of Parveena Bano
When her ailing father couldn’t afford to run his home, young Parveena Bano decided to quit studies and learn tailoring to feed...
