By Sheikh Qayoom Maqbool Sahil, writer, poet, scholar, journalist, broadcaster, and orator. That is how the tragic death of this man in search of his roots was described as. His death on 20 March came as a shock to all those who knew him, had read his books or heard him speak at functions and […]
Seventeen-year-old Tufail Ashraf Mattoo was killed by police on 11 June 2010 in what his father Mohammad Ashraf Mattoo calls a cold-blooded murder. That year another 120 youths were done to death in ring by state personnel. Ashraf Mattoo remembers his son on his death anniversary and why he can’t forgive the killer. He spoke […]
Today at Zoona’s house, her children live with nothing but their poverty and memories of the valour of their parents — far away from the plush offices of the tehreek’s ‘leaders’ who either play sport with the State or fight for space in the newspapers. In the hey days of armed militancy in Kashmir, the […]
As life and history ambled by, Hilal Ahmad Bhat watched it all up and close. For years his makeshift shop, where he sold newspapers, magazines, journals and music cassettes, was anchored at the mouth of the Lambert Lane on Srinagar’s happening Residency Road. Hilal later shifted to a nearby building to re-launch his business. Memories […]
Travelling through time and space through someone else’s narrative can at times be more meaningful than a physical journey. Ajaz A Baba revisits a book on Kashmir published 135 years ago and looks through the eyes of the book’s author at the tragedies and travails Kashmiris have suffered It so happens at times that a […]