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The history of constitutionalism around the world has been a chronicle of efforts to curb the brute nature of executive might, to protect the freedoms and liberties of the ordinary and the powerless. Unlike the ages of kings where a single monarch would make law, enforce it and decide disputes,…

While the candle flames of protesters seeking justice for the eight-year-old Kathua girl continue to burn strong, another horrific case of rape was unearthed in Jammu and Kashmir. On April 18, Newslaundry published a story highlighting a sex racket in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district where the victim said Peoples Democratic…

It took three months for the nation’s conscience to wake up to the grisly rape and murder of an eight-year-old in Kathua, Jammu. Around the same time as when the Bakerwal girl’s body was recovered in January, another minor girl from Kulgam, Kashmir, came out with her story: she had…

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…

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) office in Srinagar is guarded by four heavily-armed security personnel who open the big, metal gates of the building just enough to peep at visitors at the gate.

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.”