It is now the second-largest cause of unnatural death in the troubled region, but there is still no word for suicide in the local language. Words by Baba Umar / Photos by Abid Bhat December 2013 Thirty-one-year-old Adil Ahmad reflects on the seven times he attempted to take his own life. Sleeping pills were his method of choice for the first five. But after having.
Words by Baba Umar \ Photos by Abid Bhat June 2015 India-administered Kashmir As the summer sun prepares to hide behind the verdant peaks of Khokher Mohalla – a sleepy village in the southern portion of Indian-administered Kashmir – Fazul-ud-Deen stands outside his house pounding a section of Deodar stump with a machete. In.
Solar panels replace extinct scavengers while decomposing corpses continue to be heaped at India’s ‘Tower of Silence’. Baba Umar 7 Apr 2015 Mumbai, India – It is a thorny issue that beleaguers this fast diminishing community daily – how to preserve a 3,000-year-old ritual of giving “sky burials” to the.
Some in this restive region view the event as a propaganda tool for India to whitewash alleged abuses. Baba Umar 7 Sept 2013 A Bavarian State Orchestra concert in the Indian-administered part of Kashmir has met with strong opposition ever since it was announced a month ago. The news of the concert was greeted by a threat from previously little-known rebel groups,.
With NATO withdrawing from Afghanistan by 2014, Afghan refugees in India predict an uncertain future. Baba Umar 14 Nov 2013 Mahmud Ahmad, an Afghan refugee who works as a waiter in the Indian capital, New Delhi, is worried whether he will ever be able to return to his homeland. Ahmad is among the more than 18,000 Afghan refugees living in India – many of.
India plans to build a separation wall in the Himalayan region, but rebels have warned against such a move. Baba Umar 21 Dec 2013 Taking a cue from Israel’s proposed separation wall along the Jordanian border, India plans to build a similar but higher 179km long wall in the Indian-administered Kashmir to separate the southwestern portion of the disputed region.
Opposition boycott means contest under way in only 147 of 300 parliamentary seats up for grabs. Source: Al Jazeera
Shubhranshu Choudhary, founder of CGnet Swara – a mobile news service – beats Edward Snowden in a public vote. Baba Umar 21 Mar 2014 Indian journalist and founder of CGnet Swara, a mobile news service, has won the 2014 Freedom of Expression Award, beating the US whistleblower Edward Snowden. The award, organised by the UK-based Index on Censorship,.
Terming BJP as best option, opposition prime ministerial candidate accuses ruling party of failing to keep its promises. Baba Umar 4 Apr 2014 Gurgaon, Haryana – Narendra Modi, the prime ministerial candidate of India’s right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has accused the ruling Congress party of “failure to keep its promises”. “People.
About two dozen villages in Amethi represented by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi vow not to vote as their demands not met. Baba Umar 6 Apr 2014 Amethi, Uttar Pradesh, India – At least 50,000 people in more than two dozen villages in the Amethi district of Uttar Pradesh, have called for boycotting the upcoming parliamentary elections, in a constituency.
