I should have forgotten as soon as it happened. Memories can haunt. Become nightmares. Forgetting is a blessing. I envy those who master the art of forgetfulness. They can move on in life easily. I am not among them. I am cursed. I remember. I don’t know why I remember but, unfortunately, I do. I…

A man of uncompromising nature, Shaheed Sehrai was known to be a close confidant of late Syed Ali Shah Geelani, the most popular resistance figure of the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir who passed away in September last year. Both remained close to each other for almost 50 years. First arrested when he was…

From a student to a life convict, it has been tough journey for senior Liberation Leader, Dr Aashiq Hussain Faktoo alias Dr Qasim who has completed 29 years of imprisonment.

How do you place yourself in a situation when your oppressor comes with all guns blazing to make you forget your history and erase all the memories and shape you in an altogether different individual with no memories of what you are and have been doing to exist in an overwhelmingly abnormal situation? Defenceless and…

It was a quiet, sultry summer. The fighters had come from a long distance to hold a meeting with a newly appointed commander in Kupwara district of the valley, north of Kashmir. Tiered, the fighters took a bath in the nearby stream, on a hanging giant rock overlooking almost a dozen Indian army posts situated…