All posts tagged "mustread"
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2.5KHuman RightsOld Act, New Characters: Amnesty’s latest PSA profile
Amnesty International India’s recent and third report on Public Safety Act is yet another addition in the pile of the action-awaiting fact-finding...
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3.9KHuman RightsAnother ‘captive’ report: The denied presser and the making of Amnesty’s PSA document
On the day when Governor Satya Pal Malik along with his top executives was briefing media about his ‘corruption crusade’ in SKICC,...
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7.2KHistoryThe Ayatollah and his impact on Iran-e-Sagheer—Part II
On his 30th death anniversary, Ayatollah Khomeini’s Kashmir connection is back in discourse. In this second piece of the six-part series, the...
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10.2KFeature‘She’s my Shero’: Tehsildar who stood strong against land grabbers
A Kashmiri revenue officer Nusrat Aziz received valley-wide applaud for taking-on the powerful land grabbers in Humhama area of Budgam district. While...
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5.5KReligionMysticism, meditation, moist eyes: Ramzan devotion in Srinagar Shrines
As the holy month of Ramzan is underway, hundreds of devotees from the city and the countryside visit the famous shrines of...
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7.9KPhotoFall of Kumars: ‘In a few years, there will be no potter in Kashmir’
While most of them have long stopped moulding clay for living, the remaining traditionalists are grappling with the market indifference. Amid the...
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10.0KIn DepthInside the edifying labyrinths of Downtown Srinagar
Last week’s fierce street protests in parts of downtown Srinagar appeared redux of its defiant past. But beyond its moniker image, lies...
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33.3KHealth7 Endangered Himalayan plants you should know for their medicinal value
Kashmir is home to scores of extinction-prone flora and fauna. The flora of Kashmir is of immense aesthetic and medicinal value, as...
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3.1KNarrativeOf anger, ballot and tombstones: A Mumbai scribe’s day out in Srinagar
Lok Sabha elections might be over in the valley, but the response it drew is still being debated. Here, in a first...
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5.2KPhotoAbsence
Absence is a photo story of seven frames where I have tried to picture what my late grandfather’s life was like, with...
