20th

Apr

2020

Journalist Baba Umar reflects on his SAJP fellowship experience in London

 

London first stuck in my mind like glue when I was growing up in Kashmir. The familiar parental refrain would be ‘Zan Chi Landan Gatsun (as if you’re going to London) as they prepared me for school or any function. London must be beyond the Zabarwan mountains, I used to think.

So, in 2016, I finally.

8th

Apr

2020

India Elections Diary: Gurgaon

Shanty towns and suburbs in one of India’s fastest growing cities have yet to reap the benefits of economic growth.

With the expanding skyline, open motorways, exponential growth in real estate, nightlife, and five-star hotels, Gurgaon –.

3rd

Apr

2020

Modi supporters: ‘Love has no logic’

Narendra Modi, the frontrunner in India’s elections, has been drawing huge crowds as country prepares to vote.

3rd

Apr

2020

India Elections Diary: Muzaffarnagar

Elections seem to have further divided the communities in Muzaffarnagar which witnessed Hindu-Muslim riots last year.

30th

Mar

2020

The killing of Kashmir

May 2009

Srinagar

Arif, now dead, was not meant to look like this. His rosebud lips, long face, bright and clear complexion contrast with the monster reality of how he was shot and killed.

He was only 17 when he was aimed at.

29th

Mar

2020

Are bullets baptising Kashmir youth?

Baba Umar
Srinagar, Aug 16, 2010
Rising Kashmir

Close shave with death only hardened their resolve to fight to the finish

Hit by bullets in the abdomen,.

29th

Mar

2020

Kashmir: A long burning issue

Baba Umar
MyRepblica.com
22 Aug 2010
To the outer world, everything may seem hunky-dory in Kashmir. But inside the picturesque valley, situations these days are appalling. A single killing turns hundreds into mourners,.

29th

Mar

2020

Dateline Lal Chowk

BABA UMAR
April 10, 2013
Srinagar
Named after Moscow’s Red Square, Lal Chowk in Kashmir’s Srinagar city has always intrigued me. It is an important part of Mughal King Jehangir’s paradise, at least for a person like me, who once frequented.

29th

Mar

2020

Will US pullout from Afghanistan attract Kashmir youth to guns?

Baba Umar

April 10, 2013

The contested region of Kashmir is forecast to witness various scenarios once allied forces have withdrawn from neighbouring Afghanistan; the most worrying one is.

29th

Mar

2020

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