โKashmir is a good market for therapy,โ she remarked. โPeople here need mental help due to their situation and experiences.โ Anita Das, 33, carried an impressive resume and spoke effortless English when she arrived in the valley to get her gig as a therapist this past summer. She was assured of her shot given her…
Home Minister Amit Shahโs recent statement that the Government of India will only engage with the youth of Kashmir has once again shifted focus to the restive group grappling with plenteous problems at present. Return of the jumble-sale methods has already made fall a chilling winter in the valley. The metaphorical contrast of the withering…
In the din over the Kabul coup, analysts are locking horns over the long-predicted change in the strife region. The day Taliban entered the Presidential palace in Afghanistan capital and heralded a new era in the war-torn country, Ayesha Siddiqa, an expert on military affairs, said what strategists and security experts had long predicted: โAfter…
A recent parent-teacher meet over suspended state of education once again shifted focus to screen-stricken students being schooled in the stressful situation since 2019 summer. One such student is Aisha, whose transition from Curfew to Online classes has only made her identity conscious. She wakes up early, takes online classes and ends her day with…
On the heels of a Kashmiri Pandit councillorโs killing, a virtual talk and the subsequent speculations threaten to plague yet another summer in the valley. With J&K Police investigators still probing how did a protected person travelled to Tral without his security guards, some of his incensed brethren have already thrown their weight behind the…
Iโm writing this anonymously because Iโm afraid my mother will face the repercussions. Should such fear be expected from the educational sector of the government? Is this normal? Only days before the holy month would commence, weddings were being conducted, feasts held, markets flung open without social distancing, and officials at the airport, the ones…
As a medieval martial method, beheadings are used to scare soldiers and collect war trophies and wage psyops. When the same tactic consumed the 2003 LoC ceasefire before its revival in 2021, it almost pushed the two nuke-armoured neighbours on the warpath. A month before Delhi would secretly execute Indian Parliament convict Afzal Guru inside…
Last year saw a surge in LoC fireworks amid LAC standoff, keeping life on the cutting edge on tenterhooks. Before snow transiently silenced guns at the Line of Control (LoC), the belligerent nuke-loaded neighbours were at it again โ shelling over the bodies of Kashmiris. Last summer, the frontier fireworks were full of spark and…