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Kashmir

Why Visit the Valley

Hartosh Singh Bal

Srinagar is not an escape in any ordinary sense of the term. But it is still a question one can answer

Parallel Interlocutors

Another group hopes to achieve in Kashmir what the Centre-appointed interlocutors could not

The Nehru You Never Knew

Sat Paul Sahni’s first book of photographs was published this year, three months after his death. A Godrej almirah full of slides still remains, as do despatches from four wars

That Day in 1986

How cricket died for me that day 25 years ago

Referendum via Cricket

The gentleman’s game in Kashmir is not quite the gentleman’s game anywhere else in the world. Not when India and Pakistan play

The Story of a Kashmiri Footballer

Basharat Baba was selected to train in Brazil. It was only once his passport was rejected that he learnt his father was a former militant

The Kashmir Muddle

Just who takes the final call on troop reduction in this troubled state?

Mirror of Silence

The recent plainspeak of a separatist leader suggests that truth is not a lost cause in Kashmir. Begin with the Valley’s pattern of graves

A Reluctant Soldier

The young CRPF trooper the author met has not made his peace with his job. He is an Indian soldier, but he wants you to remember that he is a Kashmiri first

Wrong Again on Kashmir

The Centre’s interlocutors lack what is needed for useful talks

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