Showkat A. Motta

Wherever prayers were allowed, they were followed by protests

The Hurriyat is too familiar with New Delhi’s ‘damage control’ delegations

Four stone-pelters from Kashmir talk about their lives, their motivations and the neolithic intifada

As the bodycount creeps up, Kashmir’s agitation adapts to abnormal times

A regular column on the essential buzz

A young militant is killed. In death, he becomes an icon. And the streets speak freedom.

Settlements, demographic change... On her own, even Mehbooba may have hit the streets on this.

A regular column on the essential buzz

A regular column on the essential buzz

A regular column on the essential buzz

Doctors say they have never seen eye injuries at this scale

Kashmir is on the boil once again after the alleged rape and murder of two women in a southern village, frustrating the Omar Abdullah government and threatening a replay of the agitation unleashed last year over the Amarnath land row.