BABA UMAR August 20, 2011, Issue 33 Volume 8 The trade was intended to bring together Kashmiris across the border. Baba Umar reports why it’s not going according to plan IN SALAMABAD, located 12 kms from the Line of Control (LOC), Shabir Ahmad bartered Kashmiri chillies for dates with a trader across the de facto border while.
Jammu & Kashmir gets only a fraction of the electricity generated within the state. This is a huge source of angst in the Valley. Baba Umar on why this injustice continues “IF THERE is one thing I want to see in my life, it is electricity,” says 35-year-old Hafiz Khan as he smokes traditional Kashmiri hubble-bubble in the smoke-filled kitchen. Every.
(Published in Tehelka Magazine, Volume 8 Issue 36, Dated September 10, 2011) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Chairman, Hurriyat Conference (M), tells Baba Umar why a peaceful protest is not possible in Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah announced the release of 1,200 youths arrested for stone-pelting. Do you welcome it? Not at all. It is political.
BABA UMAR September 17, 2011, Issue 37 Volume 8 THE MONSOON-MANGLED road from Patan tehsil to Ghanbi village in Maharashtra’s the Western Ghats is not heavily used. From here, 15 km of a muddy stretch leads to Gojegaon, bordering what was supposed to be Koyna Wildlife Sanctuary. But unexpectedly, amid lush vistas of shrubbery and grass, one sees unending columns of wind turbines,.
BABA UMAR November 26, 2011, Issue 47 Volume 8 In 1996, four people were bundled into a police van. One escaped, while there’s still no news of the other three. Baba Umar travels to Bhaderwah to expose the cover-up JAMMU AND Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah wants the removal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).
Q&A Himanshu Thakkar, Water Activist ‘Politics is fuelling animosity on the ground’ Himanshu Thakkar is coordinator of the South Asia Network on dams, Rivers & People, edits a magazine dams, Rivers & People and has been working on waterrelated issues for more than two decades. In a candid chat with Baba Umar, Thakkar explains.
BABA UMAR December 17, 2011, Issue 50 Volume 8 IN PICTURESQUE Pahalgam, tucked in the sub-Himalayan ranges near the confluence of Sheshnag and Aru streams, villagers are fighting to safeguard an eco-sensitive region from a controversial Master Plan that is fast turning the tourist hotspot into a concrete jungle. “It won’t be an exaggeration to say that these villages are under.
PDP President Mehbooba Mufti tells Baba Umar that Omar Abdullah has gone back on his poll promise of providing free power (Published in Tehelka Magazine, Volume 9 Issue 2, Dated January 14, 2012) What’s your reaction to recent media reports on the National Integration Council (NIC) meeting transcript released by the home ministry? It’s.
CM BC Khanduri was brought in to rescue the BJP’s sliding fortunes. Baba Umar tracks what he’s doing right UTTARAKHAND CHIEF minister Bhuvan Chandra Khanduri, 77, usually wears one of three faces these days. There’s a furious, shocked one — often worn while facing a confrontational scribe — in which his forehead furrows, cheeks go red, black eyes roll,.
The ongoing SECC census may leave millions of poverty-stricken Indians outside the purview of the BPL category, writes Baba Umar A decade ago when her husband died, Uddi Gujjar (45) mourned for months and struggled to get her life back on track in Tikel Purohitaan village of Rajasthan’s Jaipur district. The widow worked as a manual labourer to raise her two sons Hanuman (17) and.
