All posts tagged "Featured"
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8.8KConflictHabibullah Khan: The ‘custodian’ of ‘1500 martyrs’
As body bags began coming down from frontiers and forests during the nineties, sprawling cemeteries cropped up across Kashmir. Once such cemetery...
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10.2KConflictKashmir’s AK-47 story
Moscow this past September unveiled the statue of the AK-47 creator Mikhail Kalashnikov to honour the war veteran who gave the world...
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2.7KBraid CuttingBraid Chopping as ‘Mass Hysteria’: ‘Why weren’t we crazy a month ago?’
Even as two months have passed without any breakthrough in braid chopping episodes in Kashmir, the theory of ‘mass hysteria’ is still...
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2.8KCommentaryHow is ‘She’ doing amid escalating braid chopping and vigilantism?
Being a woman in contemporary Kashmir is no fun as the fret of the puzzling prowlers keeps shadowing one’s senses. While the...
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2.8KBraid CuttingBraid chopping: An old trick in new times?
Even as chief minister Mehbooba Mufti broke her silence after 100 plus braid-chopping incidents that shocked the valley, her government’s ‘mass hysteria’...
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3.0KCommentaryBraid Chopping: ‘We’ll get through this, too, stronger than they think’
How does it feel like a Kashmiri woman when relentless braid-chopping episodes are only escalating a sense of scare? Here, the writer...
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3.3KBraid Cutting‘Mass hysteria’ or horrific reality: Four women with chopped jewels detail the devil
Just outside her home, the boys are running after the suspicious shadows. Down the streets, they sit, fuming, scanning every passerby. Three...
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12.0KAnalysisKashmiri Sikhs: The vibrant minority that has always stood behind the majority
Their Kashmiri roots are either traced as Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s lieutenants or Guru Nanak’s Brahmin converts, but beyond that introduction Kashmiri Sikhs...
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5.6KCulture
The Bhands of Budgam and their cultural crusade
Beyond the jester’s play, Bhand Pather is known as an expression of the feelings of hostility, isolation, oppression and tyranny at the...
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4.7KSocietyMuharram 2017: When a religious event turned colourful with a stark message
The young Shia generation is as politically mature and receptive as perhaps anyone else in Kashmir. To give sense of that understanding,...
