Kashmir

The Nehru You Never Knew

Sohini Chattopadhyay

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

Rahul Pandita

How cricket died for me that day 25 years ago

Referendum via Cricket

Avirook Sen

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

Atiya Hussain

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

Rahul Pandita

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

Mirror of Silence

Rahul Pandita

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

Majid Maqbool

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

Rahul Pandita

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

“Grant Autonomy to Valley”

Open

The government’s eight-point initiative on Kashmir is not enough. The idea of autonomy is finding resonance even at the extremes of the Indian political spectrum.