(Business Insider) Aylin Woodward Imagine a wall of rock and ice 1,800 feet wide falling the length of four Empire State Buildings stacked end-to-end. A slab that size is responsible for the disaster in northern India that killed more than 200 people and destroyed two power plants four months ago, …
Read More »Feature: Covid orphans are a tragic legacy of India’s pandemic
(CNN) Vedika Sud, Esha Mitra and Julia Hollingsworth Each day, Devika wakes up and prepares breakfast for her six siblings. As they sit on the floor of their brightly painted Delhi home, she places another plate of food in front of a framed photo of her parents. They died just a few weeks …
Read More »Article: Mounting atrocities against Dalits across India
(Eurasia View) Dr Ram Puniyani In Karakthal village in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, a Dalit youth was recently thrashed for daring to sport a moustache. In Chikkmagaluru, Karnataka, a Dalit youngster was tortured and subjected to degrading treatment in police custody. In Madhya Pradesh, the wife of a Dalit labourer, five months …
Read More »Feature: The children of India orphaned by Covid
(The Guardian) Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Manoj Chaurasia Nitish Kumar will never forget the day he and his sisters buried their dead mother in the back garden. Just 32, Priyanka Devi had died from Covid on 3 May. Neighbours and relatives refused to help with her burial, and all the family’s …
Read More »Feature: Education in Kashmir’s lockdowns — A series of traumas
(The Kashmir Wala) Gafira Qadir Uzma Shuja has been distraught since last year when Kashmir went into another round of lockdown. Her children — Jazah, 7, and Abdullah, 5 — were already experiencing changed behaviours and each new day was making them more timid and unsocial. The children of Shuja, …
Read More »India’s nuclear recklessness — Part II
(The News International) Dr Shireen Mazari So the latest report of uranium being sold and smuggled out of India is not new. Why the international community has chosen to turn a blind eye and why the IAEA has deliberately ignored these continuing episodes of Uranium theft and smuggling incidents …
Read More »Kashmir: A chain of broken promises
(Daily Sabah) Ghulam Nabi Fai If promises are made to be broken, then Kashmir may be summoned to prove the treacherous proposition. Broken promises haunt Kashmir’s history and explain its tragedy. I will confine myself to the last century as a concession to the shortness of life. Under the 1846 …
Read More »Feature: Facebook’s leniency towards Hindu extremist group
(Time) Billy Perrigo The Sanatan Sanstha’s extended presence on Facebook—despite being banned from the platform—raises questions about how effectively the company is delivering on its commitment to root out hate speech and incitement to violence, including in its largest market, India. Facebook allowed a Hindu extremist group to operate openly …
Read More »Three lockdowns choke Kashmir’s wedding industry
(The Kashmir Wala) Shefali Rafiq The deserted streets in Srinagar, currently under a lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19, brings back the memories of the August 2019 clampdown for Junaid Firdous Naqash, a 32-year-old tent supplier. Naqash, a third generation businessman in his family, said that the peak marriage …
Read More »Feature: Frontline doctors in Kashmir losing family members to COVID-19
(The Kashmir Wala) Zenaira Bakhsh Weeks before Eid in May, surgeon Owais Makhdoomi received a distress call from his sister Mursaleen Asim, who was pregnant with her first child. She had developed symptoms of the Covid-19 disease and was worried for her unborn baby. Asim’s pregnancy had elated the entire …
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