I wish…

I wish I was standing on the balcony of my room in Kashmir and it is spring morning…I can feel the cool air blow and I think of school, and get reminded that I have to locate my white uniform. Other ordeal is to find the white ribbon which somehow always goes missing in the [...]

Republic Day of India

A few headlines in the local papers in Kashmir as Republic Day of India approached last year…
21st January 2006

Government has failed to protect human rights: Sagar. (Nothing new for Kashmiris whose human rights have been battered and bruised over the years.)
Srinagar Under siege for R-day parade. (Kashmiris are used to it for the last [...]