All posts tagged "memory"
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2.5KCommentaryAn affidavit to the ‘Invisible People’
Someone would have said: You people don’t know how beautiful you are. The beauty of your souls goes unnoticed, and one thing...
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How a gunfight destroyed my best friend’s home
On June 29, when counter-insurgents arrived in Pulwama’s Thamuna area, they ended the gunfight on the usual note: by razing the residence...
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April 10, 1993: The day a boat sank with the dead
This day, on April 1993, Srinagar’s trade heartland Lal Chowk went up in flames after the BSF troopers ran amok. After the...
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Of Migration and Nostalgia: A Kashmiri Pandit girl’s homecoming hues
New generation of migrated Kashmiri Pandits who mainly visited Kashmir through the memories and musings of their elders often get fascinated by...
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I was born blonde and I thought it was a curse
After being born blonde, a Srinagar boy had to pass through perceptive tests and trails before he realized that being different isn’t...
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She died at my doorstep
I try to reach home before they switch off the last streetlight outside my house. They don’t like ‘wasting light’ here. There...
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Of stolen apples and unforgettable memories
A video showing the armed forces personnel being caught stealing apples from an orchard in Kashmir has gone viral on social media. In...
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2014 Deluge: I was safe, but there were others to be saved
“Dear son, you know the situation is more than worse in most parts of the city and we’re lucky on our part...
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Guns, votes, and eight year olds
I had stopped to catch a breath. My cousin Dawood needed to breathe. Big name for a six year old, Dawood. Mud...
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Memory: The elders would often protect us with their bodies
That fateful evening of the early 90’s is still as fresh a memory in my mind, that recalling it, sends shivers down...
