Kashmiri prisoners may never return home — now not even in death
“I might not be able to see my father even in his final times. At least I got to bury my mother near our home; if my father dies of Covid-19, he will never return home.”
‘Deaths are real’: in Kashmir, a family of COVID-19 victim warns people
When Rameez Makhdoomi reads news of recent deaths caused during the second wave of COVID-19, flashbacks come rushing. Last year a video went viral...
Tourists and tulips bloomed in Kashmir. Then came COVID-19.
Compounded by the new variants of the coronavirus, the loosely checked inflow of the travellers and tourists has endangered the already ailing healthcare infrastructure of Kashmir.
India can’t breathe but Modi won’t admit to failures
“Wherever I see, I can see only people and nothing else,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised thousands of his supporters gathered on 17 April...
Ban on live reporting is about narrative — not journalists’ safety
On 2 April, hundreds of youth attempted to disrupt a gunfight in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. As the protest spiraled out of the police’s...
‘Permission mangni thi?’: Corporal punishment stirs debate in Kashmir
If hiding behind the conflict wasn’t enough, some even went further and invoked religion to justify the teacher’s abusive behaviour.
Naya Kashmir’s unapologetic new ‘heroes’
When Kashmiri unionists addressed an Indian audience, they often blamed Kashmir’s popular sentiment for their inability to deliver. When they spoke to Kashmiris, they...
Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind: Kashmir’s loneliest militant group’s perpetual fights
Unlinking itself from the politics of Pakistan-backed militant groups, the AGH struck a chord with the Kashmiri youth. But the challenges for the group have widened as they fight perpetual battles of ideology, identity, and survival.
Why night curfew won’t curb COVID-19 in Kashmir?
Despite rise in COVID-19, tourism promotion events in recent weeks witnessed a brazen violation of social distancing as large gatherings were allowed to attend the events, without masks, in Kashmir.
Will it last? Border residents wary of LoC ceasefire
When the two armies again announced a ceasefire last month, it renewed hopes of the border residents to live a life of peace. Even as the guns have fallen silent along the LoC, Rafiq is sceptical if the peace would last.