By Sneha Satyan Bengaluru, Aug 27, 2020: On August 24 I received a video through WhatsApp. The title of the video is: Kashmiri Ladki (girl). The young girl’s narration is touching, moving, thought-provoking and challenging. Here is the English translation of her Hindi narration. “As-salamu Alaikum! I am Fatima, 16-year-old.Continue Reading
New Delhi, March 4, 2020: Wired broadband internet services in the Kashmir Valley will be restored in full and access to social media websites will be permitted from March 4 evening, a senior official of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited said. However, mobile internet services will continue to be restricted, withContinue Reading
By Ria Das Beerwah, Jan 28, 2019: Inshah Bashir, who hails from Budgam district’s area in Kashmir, recalls herself as a sober and patient child. Now 24, Inshah fell from a height of 40 feet in her own under-construction house in 2008 and lost the ability to walk. However, sheContinue Reading
Aijaz Nazir Srinagar: Unaware of the tragedy that happened to his family, five-year-old Rohit Koul played in the courtyard while his three elder siblings sat in a dimly lit room of their house in Lavdoora village, in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district. The children have not spoken much after their mother,Continue Reading
Faisul Yaseen Srinagar: A top Christian preacher and educationist in Kashmir, Father Sebastian Nagathungal Monday said a make-believe impression was being created in India as if the majority community was under threat from the minority community while Kashmir was witnessing religious tolerance. “When we look around there is so muchContinue Reading
Ram Puniyani The turmoil in Kashmir, which got intensified after the fake encounter of Burhan Wani (July 2016), does not seem to abet. It has been worsening as reflected in the ongoing violence leading to low turnout of voters in the by poll (April 2017). Shockingly there was a turnContinue Reading
By:Ram Puniyani The turmoil in Kashmir, which got intensified after the fake encounter of Burhan Wani (July 2016), does not seem to abet. It has been worsening as reflected in the ongoing violence leading to low turnout of voters in the by poll (April 2017). Shockingly there was a turn outContinue Reading
Thousands of people in the Muslim-majority region follow Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam whose adherents seek spiritual communion through music and dance at the shrines of their saintsContinue Reading
SRINAGAR: Schools reopened in Kashmir on Wednesday after about 8 months, which included the period of unrest last summer triggered by the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Burhan Wani. Despite rainfall which brought down the temperature, students made their way to schools to resume the learning process which was severelyContinue Reading
Many churches in Kashmir did not sing carols on Christmas to scale-down celebrationsContinue Reading