On June 19, 2022, Jammu and Kashmir Police announced that an encounter between Indian Armed forces and freedom fighters has erupted in Lolab area of North Kashmir. Soon, as events and information unfolded, it was a textbook style of earlier operations. It was not the first time they had a script with so many loopholes…

Translation of Shahnawaz Taing’s Urdu Short Story ‘INSANIYAT” She was walking like a cat. Happy and calm. It was a warm, beautiful morning. Suddenly she felt nauseous. Her head began to spin. Blood pressure reached the sky (must have been 180/170 if checked sphygmomanometer). Her condition was getting worse and with a loud thud, she fell on…

He is going to die, shoot him twice, slit his throat They won’t forget, hear the cries, slit his throat Heer wandering in the lanes of Kashmir, said Where is Ranja, put him on the ice, slit his throat Ali won’t come to help us, we’re not Hussain Find your own Yazeed, pay the price,…

mabrook, you are a mouj now, be wise — prepare his head for a bullet a charming martyr with green eyes — prepare his head for a bullet children who survive are all blind, they shot pellets in their eyes they target the kids and never compromise — prepare his head for a bullet wamiq, salik, sameer,…

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…