The Latest Breaking News from Kashmir

Today’s episode is hosted by Meghnad S who brings you stories from Kashmir, Delhi, Shimla and more.Produced by Parikshit Sanyal and edited by Satish Kumar.You can also listen to all our podcasts on the Newslaundry App and get updates about all our podcasts via Twitter and Facebook.Newslaundry is a reader-supported, ad-free, independent news outlet…

In this episode of Daily Dose, Snigdha Sharma brings you the latest stories from Kashmir, New Delhi, South India, Pakistan and Kenya.

With one day left for Eid-ul-Fitr, one of the biggest festivals in the Kashmir Valley, signs of celebration are visible all across. The roads throng with shoppers, bakeries overflow with delicacies, and preparations for a grand feast are in progress.

The spectacular Gurez valley lies secluded in the upper reaches of the Himalaya, tucked between the northern stretch of Kashmir, 123 km from Srinagar, and Pakistan’s southern horizon. When you tell the locals how beautiful it is, the common response is: “Oh, but you don’t want to be here in the winters.”

At the age of 7, Shahbaz learnt that walnuts were best crushed by a grenade. Today, 32-year-old Shahbaz worries about the Kashmir his five-year-old daughter will grow up in.

Cartoonists and artists from Kashmir were not unaffected by the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl. According to reports, the motive behind the crime was to drive away the nomadic Bakerwal community from Kathua that is about 50 km from Jammu. The illustrations and cartoons highlighted the gruesome crime, and also…

Fazil Allai, a Class VIII student from south Kashmir’s Shopian, was back home in no time on April 11. “They closed the school because of an encounter between a group of militants and security forces in Khudwani,” the 14-year-old told his mother. “Funeral processions will come out soon.”

Author-journalist Elizabeth Becker had once remarked on the few women who had covered the Vietnam War: “Female reporters covered that war, rewriting the rules so that the phrase ‘woman war correspondent’ would never again be an oxymoron.”