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 it almost every day. You can get lost in the labyrinth of its narrow lanes and by-lanes that all converge.
Baba Umar May 30, 2013 Jammu and Kashmir and Chhattisgarh maybe 1300 miles apart. But one thing that binds them together is decades-old insurgency and almost similar state response. However, unlike Kashmir where the mobile phone service is massively used to track and hunt down rebels, large swathes of Chhattisgarh and portions of almost eight other Naxal-hit states have so.
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December 4, 2010, Issue 47 Volume 7
Is Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri, born in Mirpur, Pakistan-administered Kashmir, now al Qaeda’s head of military ops? This is what US intelligence agencies believe.
IS MOHAMMAD Ilyas Kashmiri, born in Mirpur, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, now al Qaeda’s head of military ops? This is what US intelligence agencies believe. In that case, security.
January 1, 2011, Issue 52 Volume 7 WikiLeaks disclosures on torture in Kashmir have fuelled fresh demands for repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act. Baba Umar reports on the plight of victims THE WIKILEAKS exposé of the International Committee for Red Cross (ICRC) telling US diplomats in 2005 about “torture of civilians” in Kashmiri jails comes at a time when Union Home Minister P.
January 22, 2011, Issue 03 Volume 8
NC MLA and Farooq Abdullah’s brother Mustafa Kamal tells Baba Umar the Pandits are unwilling to return to Kashmir
On what grounds do you say that the Pandits were forced to flee Kashmir by none other than New Delhi, the army and the then home minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed?
It was a conspiracy hatched.
January 29, 2011, Issue 04 Volume 8 You can lease a river in Chhattisgarh for 22 years. At just Rs. 1 per annum. While thousands go thirsty IN MAHMARA village of Durg district in Chhattisgarh, Ramoram Thakur, 70, recalls how as a boy he would sing and hear folklore about water, fishermen and farmers of his village, tucked into the western edge of Sheonath.
March 12, 2011, Issue 10 Volume 8 Defying court orders, the network of canals in the Narmada basin is destroying small farms that never needed the water, reports Baba Umar BHILALA TRIBALS often assemble next to what used to be their village, Atursumba of Khargaon district in southeast Madhya Pradesh. Dwarfing them is a 100-feet-wide canal laid high above the.
March 19, 2011, Issue 11 Volume 8
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Langate MLA Sheikh Abdul Rasheed is popularly known in Jammu & Kashmir as ‘Engineer Rasheed’, a reference to his professional qualification. Rasheed was a separatist and then became a human rights activist. In a candid chat, he tells Baba Umar what the Centre needs to.
March 26, 2011, Issue 12 Volume 8
Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Hurriyat (G) chairman, tells Baba Umar the State is fanning rumours of another unrest
You have proclaimed that there will be no prolonged strikes this year. Is it a strategy shift?
Hurriyat (G) was never for violent agitation. From 2008, we have been regularly saying that ours is.
Baba Umar March 28, 2011, Issue 21 Volume 8 Ravi Shankar Sai, 53 PS Paikra, 51 Lakhan Singh, 59 Mansukh Karketta, 54 Narsingh Usendi, 55 FIGHTING DISCRIMINATION, can be a lifelong struggle for those born on the ‘wrong’ side of the caste divide — even if they have served as judges for 20 years. When 17 Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe judges were ordered to take.
