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Volume 1, No. 10 - March 2002 |
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Somewhere in late January or early February, the world lost a brave soul, leaving behind not only a loving family including an expectant widow, but a vast community of journalists and media personnel who work across the globe. Newsmen and women are just trying to report news as they see it, or hear it. Without them, the world would not be able to read its newspapers, listen to radio news or watch TV evening news. It would be an empty world, a deprived world......More...
Counter-Insurgency in
Kashmir: Bolstering VDCs The season for probing solutions to
the ‘nuclear flashpoint’ of Kashmir has taken off in a big way in
western think tanks and media outlets. Not a day passes without one
group and association or the other unfurling its own plans of conflict
de-escalation, peace and harmony. A common denominator among the more
sensible of these ‘Track II’ efforts is conviction that the insurgent
gun.....More....
Fellow Kashmiri
Hindus: It has to be you and me
It was just after two in the afternoon on
28th of September 1989. I was at my work in Rajbagh, Srinagar.
Everything seemed normal. People seemed to be busy earning their
livelihood. But then came that call. Shabir Shah was arrested near
Ramban on Jammu-Kashmir national highway. Next thing we saw was.......More...
The Hapless Spectators Kashmiri Pundits (KP's), fundamental components of the glorious heritage and legacy of Kashmir find themselves at crossroads in their 12th year of exile; more than 8000 families still languish in refugee camps without appropriate facilities for sanitation, medical care and education - a state that can be aptly described as 'pitiable.' In the past one-decade, more than 1000 KP's have perished due to snakebites, and sunstrokes.......More.....
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