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A Mother’s Love
By Muhabit-ul-Haq If there was one word to describe why eighty-year old Gawri shri stayed back, it would be love: Motherly love that ignored the ‘orders’ and ‘threats’ of leaving Kashmir in the infamous mass exodus of Kashmiri pundits. She sacrificed a ‘better life’ to fulfill the wish of her son. Behind many ruins of [...]
Martyrs Day Of Sopore
By Iymon Ganaie A busy market place shields the green fenced graveyard at the town center. Shopping complexes shadow it. The entrance to the graveyard is closed, as if it has been never opened. Over the main entrance gate a hoarding announces, “Graveyard for the martyrs of 1931”. Inside, the gravestones are not visible. They [...]
Army \ India \ Kashmir \ Police \ Sopore
Why He Throws Stones
By Iymon Ganaie In the battlefield; guns, bullets, teargas shells, lathis, bricks and stones are the common weapons. Stone is Manzoor’s only weapon in this battle, played on the streets and highways of Kashmir. “Either you hit or you miss. There is no in between,” Manzoor says of the stones he throws. Winters often put [...]
Kashmir \ Sabreena \ Sopore \ Suicide
“Ayas te Ayas wapas, Ayas te ne kiheen”
In a well lit room, of their one storey house at Model Town, Sopore, Sabreena’s family and relatives are wailing. Sabreena committed suicide by jumping into the river Jhelum on May 13. A Master’s degree in Education (M. Ed) application form still has her handwritten name, Sabreena Mohiudin Kababi, which she filled a few days [...]
Kashmir \ militant \ Qamarwari shootout \ Quit Jammu Kashmir Movement \ Sopore
Militant or student?
“Did you see my beloved anywhere?” holding tears at the ends of her eye lids a forlorn mother asked in a dimly lit room with red curtains and black blankets on the floor. In her fifties, Zamrooda Shah, mother of Peerzada Arshid Ahmed Shah who was killed on Monday afternoon in Qamarwari chowk shootout entered [...]
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