Wounded Womb
Regardless of peace and war, mothers are naturally emotional beings, neutral to every other thing around. What happens when a mother loses a son?...
Qadir’s Wild Search
His son went to a doctor and did not return. Next morning, he was taken by the army and released in a condition forcing...
A Body Snatcher
Nobody knows about the body-bags he might have filled during his Kashmir posting. But Major Gogoi, who was finally sent to the Court Martial,...
Summer Slaughter
In one year, it took Tahir Bhat eight visits to police station Vilgam to attempt getting even the basic information about a watershed event....
Molvi’s Murder
It has been years since the only brother of five Ganderbal sisters was murdered in a distant Rajasthan town where he was enrolled in...
A Withered Witness
Witness to the ups and downs in Shehr-e-Khas, Siddiq Sodaghar remembers all events between the Nala Mar filling to the worst of Sher-Bakra feud....
Horror In Hawoora
A good boy’s sweet dream sent the entire village to clear the graveyard from weeds and shrubs and minutes later soldiers came and sent...
Pulwama’s Poswal
Umar Mukhtar met the doctor whose son was born and raised in the same hospital where he was declared dead and offered the funeral...
A ‘Mad’ Mother
Deserted by her husband, she lived for the only son she owned after a legal battle over his possession. When he was supposed to...
Driven Over
Last week, Kashmir witnessed another harrowing clip of a killing recorded by some citizen journalist. Saima Bhat visited the family to understand the boy...
Requiem for Rehti
Since 1998 when her fingers were broken by the soldier who took her son, Rehti did not leave even a single garrison across Kashmir...
Juvenile culling?
The most vulnerable section of the demography in a conflict situation is women. But children also have their share of miseries. A human rights...
Massacring A Village
Twenty years after eight Kashmiri Pandits were killed, the Sangrampora village is in ruins because both Muslims and Pandits migrated to other places. Umar...
Discovering A Cushion
After failing in getting their lone breadwinner out of the jail, family members of a ruling party worker started making cushions for survival, reports...
Shot In Shopian
A brief gun-battle triggered a chain of events that consumed seven lives including two young men who joined militancy in different situations, as two...