HISTORICAL FACTS: 27 - Caught on Camera

‘My child is not a prop for normalcy’: Kashmiri parents aren’t sending their kids to school

The classrooms are empty. So are the corridors and playgrounds. There’s not a soul in the canteen. 

Newslaundry · Aug 21, 2019

#Article370: Curfew and curses in Srinagar’s Downtown area

Most reports coming out of Kashmir, specifically Srinagar, have described and distilled the desolate, still and sieged state of the region as “curfew-like”. However, while all of Srinagar remains desolate, parts of it are more desolate than others.

Newslaundry · Aug 19, 2019

Greater Kashmir journalist detained, his family says they have not been informed why

At the “Media Facilitation Centre” in Srinagar’s Sarovar Portico, three glum faces await the arrival of Rohit Kansal, Jammu and Kashmir’s Principal Secretary of Planning. The three individuals are the family members of 28-year-old Irfan Amin Malik, a Tral-based journalist working for Greater Kashmir, the largest circulated daily in Kashmir. 

Newslaundry · Aug 15, 2019

As India, Pak duel over Gurez dam, a village in Kashmir longs for electricity

The spectacular Gurez valley lies secluded in the upper reaches of the Himalaya, tucked between the northern stretch of Kashmir, 123 km from Srinagar, and Pakistan’s southern horizon. When you tell the locals how beautiful it is, the common response is: “Oh, but you don’t want to be here in the winters.”

Newslaundry · May 30, 2018

BJP Media Incharge in Kashmir speaks on the #KathuaCase

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) office in Srinagar is guarded by four heavily-armed security personnel who open the big, metal gates of the building just enough to peep at visitors at the gate.

Newslaundry · Apr 14, 2018