Lubna Reshi From dawn to dusk – determined to be of some help to the stranded people – Maham would every day set out to float on gushing flood water on an inflated boat. As water ravaged the city of Srinagar on September 7, Maham, 21, decided not to put up … Read more →
Kashmiri women photographers document Kashmir
Majid Maqbool Five young, promising Kashmiri woman photographers, all in their twenties, talk about what makes them pick up the camera, go out, and click images, against all the odds. They also point out the difficulties they encounter while working in the field, the societal bias, and why there’s a … Read more →
Incipience and other poems
Taseer Gujral ~ incipience ~ the place i come from does not exist anymore it was a soluble continent a filigree of gold and green fed by a maze of five rivers it survived the wounds of a land divided and a savage holocaust only to hear the sufi … Read more →
Through the burning years and another poem
Junaid Ashraf When I was little I had smelled the years ahead of me burning! I had to walk on the embers through merciless flames I would look up In the sky waiting That a voice will call the fire ‘’Be cool’’ But it never did! Fire is perhaps Meant … Read more →
A Former Police Officer Remembers Jagmohan Days
Masood Hussain writes about a “witness to the goriest 1990s, former police officer Israr Khan was part of the set-up that escorted Kashmiri Pandits, out of Kashmir, on Jagmohan’s directions. His clan served the Dogra army for decades but was hit by the division of India to the extent that … Read more →
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