All posts tagged "Featured"
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2.6KNarrativeNeutrality in the times of War – Part II
Suddenly, one day, he was spotted wandering on the manned streets of Srinagar, hymning, “Ann pour Mansooier, Rahim loug daawas…” But the...
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7.9KFeatureWith a Black Belt round the corner, Kashmir’s Thang-Ta champ is losing her game
As a woman of strength, she would regularly beat eve-teasers on Srinagar’s streets till she took her fights inside the Thang-Ta fields...
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5.5KHuman Rights‘Mistaken Identities’ and ‘Regrets’ in the Iron Curtained frontier Kupwara
Well before Kupwara’s taxi driver would become the latest civilian casualty in the garrisoned province on Dec 16, the military ‘loose guns’...
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3.7KConflictWhat preceded the flaring haystacks: Hajin’s Horror through an eyewitness
When Indian army’s armoured vehicles pulled over in Hajin’s Parrey Mohalla at noontime of Dec 6, 2017, the ensued street confrontation caught...
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4.9KEducationMeet Daghpora’s Swiss daughter-in-law who runs a talent-harnessing school, and loves Haakh
It was a typical love story that started when a Ganderbal man met a Swiss tourist in South India. 15 years later,...
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4.7KFeatureThe dead silence that prevails over Batkoot’s bloody Sunday
Since March 1997, the Mir family of Batkoot has been grappling with recurrent flashes of the butchery that saw their beloveds being...
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8.1KLiteratureThe 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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7.0KFeatureKabir 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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9.1KHistoryKashmir’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...
