
‘Shroud Stealer’ Returns in Kashmir’s Swoop Series
Back-to-back bank heists and political shifts have resuscitated a slang tossed at some social outcasts in Kashmir’s contemporary conversations.
Back-to-back bank heists and political shifts have resuscitated a slang tossed at some social outcasts in Kashmir’s contemporary conversations.
Despite becoming cult in his class, an ace engineer from a family of administrators Syed Shuja Hussain Shah maintained integrity throughout his career, especially during the recent treacherous times of Kashmir history. His demise as one of the honest engineers of the valley has made it a personal loss to many.
Resumption of the Diplomacy Era with the White House rejig has already started lowering some rigid global guards and resurrected the olive branch policy now fast branching out in the valley with silent gun phase at the Line of Control.
Behind the screens, tech-savvy felons are dragging gullible Kashmiris in the sexploitation or scam dragnet like never before. These cybercrimes are only triggering a new battle between cons and cops in Kashmir’s virtual battleground.
A recent hanging of a dissident in Iran stirred up the nightmare of harrowing hangmen in “Iran-e-Sagheer”. Those forgotten characters of Kashmir’s executed past would drum death on the streets of Srinagar and direct oppressed people to show up as cheerleaders.
To counter suicidal thoughts, financial distress and societal indifference, a pellet survivor had started a welfare trust for his sightless tribe which is now on the verge of closure due to Covid crisis.
2014 deluge damage apart, Kashmir’s plagued and prosecuted past in official libraries exist with missing chapters and details. In this story, a young journalist’s exploratory trip to different official archive addresses in Srinagar reveals a condensed and curtailed nature of Kashmir history.
As pellets once again returned to haunt Kashmir near a Shopian gunfight site, the victims of the duck-hunting guns continue to grapple with the enforced darkness. But one pellet-affected boy is showing the way by fighting his victimhood with the light of education.
On this day, last year, snapped communication channels tormented many Kashmiris studying, working outside the valley. A student from Srinagar studying journalism in Punjab narrates how the day became a timeline of trauma, nightmares and anxiety for Kashmiri students far from home
A prominent Kashmiri journalist’s positive to negative COVID-19 case apart, many Kashmiri families suffering the similar medical fate pass through a nerve-racking pain which often leaves them numb and quiet
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