Covid chronicles mightโve started sounding a bit clichรฉd now, but as the threat of the third wave is still looming large, some stories continue to stir for their evocative appeal. Asma was busy with household chores when her mother, Khadija, called in to inform her that she was tested positive for Covid-19. It was April…
In the darkest hours, his father would say, โGet out of my house!โ Itโs the year 2015โฆ 10-year-old boy hears some noises on the premises and the sound of a car. From a room on the first floor, through a small window hole, he saw his father getting out of the car. Heโs accompanied by…
As they reap what they sow in spring, Kashmirโs golden landscape at once turns festive with harvest hands and hymns in autumn. Sweat beads shine their furrowed foreheads as the scorching sun in a sleepy hamlet glows the golden swathes of paddy fields. In this pastoral portrait, Kashmirโs farmers reap the harvest with festive vibes.…
The family of the slain Imtiyaz Ahmad Kakroo claim that he was arrested by the army and killed in a โfake encounterโ. SHAHGUND (BANDIPORA) โย The family of the slain Shahgund boy, Imtiyaz Ahmad Kakroo, Monday contested the police claim saying that their “innocent son” was passed as a militant and killed in the Bandipora โencounterโ.…
SRINAGAR โ Sheikhpora Pandit Colony in Central Kashmirโs Budgam district wore a deserted look on Friday. The previous day a Kashmiri Pandit teacher and a Sikh teacher were gunned down by โunknown gunmenโ. Two days before their killings, a renowned Kashmiri Pandit businessman, Makhan Lal Bindroo, was killed in his shop. Otherwise a bustling place…
In the summer capital rattling by civilian killings, cops are checking, among the assailants, the third wave with the strict mask implementation. But despite the baton order, the commoners are unwittingly unmasking their agonized faces. That Delhi has dispatched some top counterinsurgents in the wake of capital killings and on the heels of Raj Bhavanโs…
Beyond the blitz created by the ongoing brush strokes, Srinagar is changing and so are its signs which once made it a pulsating city. At the farther corner of the Poloview street where an artist crew lately arrived to paint a parking lot into a leisure junction, a signboard of Kashmirโs genuine craft is silently…
The political parties are still not clear whether to contest elections without seeking restoration of special status and statehood. SRINAGAR โ When the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi met various political leaders of Jammu and Kashmir including former chief ministers and parliamentarians, in June this year, one of the issues discussed was to strengthen…
Knocking the doors, talking to people, explaining the same thing over and again, convincing them, registering them for the drive, is what the couple has been doing for months now.ย In a bid to boost the battle against the brutal bug, Naziya Hurra braved brouhaha in the form of street sneers and smirks trying to…
A recent Uri military-op conducted amid suspended cellular network once again highlighted the life shadowed by the skirmishes and strife on the garrisoned side-line.ย On the intervening night of September 18 and 19, a battery of the Indian army got activated to counter an infiltration attempt in Uriโs Gohalan area. The breach occurred days after…