Quratulain Rehbar

Kashmir Clampdown: Through the eyes of women

Note: Due to the ongoing communication blockade in Kashmir, where the government has snapped all internet and mobile services, The Kashmir Walla is being updated from New Delhi. Walking on...

Panic, hastiness and deserted Dal Lake

On a hot afternoon, where the Dal Lake’s water shimmers in the sunlight, the busy lakeside road, which starts from the Dalgate, Srinagar, is deserted today. It has hardly...

Malik Noor: 70-yr-old rearing silkworm to weave family’s dreams

Thirty years ago, in 1988, when a 39-year-old had nothing but a mud-hut, where she lived with her family of four—struggling to put food on the table two times...

Mental Health in Kashmir: ‘They think she has gone mad’

Rafiqa Bano, with prevalent anxiety on the face, was among many, sitting in a disorganized queue outside the ward of Clinical Psychology department in Shri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital...

Handwara’s untapped lignite treasure caught in conflict, lost in oblivion

As Ghulam Hassan Mir, 45, sits in his one storey mud-house, narrating the tale of his native place, Nichhamma, a remote area 21 kilometers west of Handwara, North Kashmir,...

‘Allegations of human rights violations very grave, India not allowing us to visit’: UN Special Rapporteur

Nilz Melzer, United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture, said that the allegations that ‘550-page report on human torture in Kashmir’ by two local NGOs is making are very serious...