Gowhar Geelani

1 week ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Gowhar Geelani |Vivek Katju |Vaishna Roy

WATCH | Uri: The story after Pahalgam  In this ground report for Frontline, Gowhar Geelani travels through the conflict-ravaged villages of north Kashmir near the Line of Control (LoC), documenting the destruction, fear, and fragile calm that followed intense cross-border shelling between India and Pakistan in early May 2025. What began as a peaceful day in Uri turned into a nightmare—residential homes reduced to rubble, families displaced, and civilians caught in the terrifying exchange of fire.

1 week ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Vaishna Roy |Gowhar Geelani

As the fog of war slowly dissipated over the past weeks, a few aspects emerged from the haze like nebulous question marks. First, the government’s policy in Kashmir. Besides proving the fallacy of the normalcy narrative, the terror attack and its aftermath scarred an already traumatised Valley.

1 week ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy

Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka’s retirement has stirred deep emotion within the legal fraternity. His elevation to the Supreme Court was a rare and hard-won victory for judicial merit—a welcome aberration in a system often clouded by opacity and executive pressure. It came after a prolonged standoff led by former Supreme Court judge Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman, then a member of the Supreme Court’s five-judge collegium for appointments to the Supreme Court.

1 week ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd |Cynthia Stephen |Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy

In The Shudra Rebellion, the political theorist and Dalit rights activist Professor Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd attempts what few historians have done: he critiques Indian culture and civilisation by applying a new methodology that onboards the historically marginalised Shudras, who constitute both India’s productive labour and its numerical majority, into the mainstream narrative.

1 week ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Srikar Raghavan |Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy

Just a few weeks ago, an autorickshaw was crunched between two city buses in Bengaluru, instantly killing the driver and an octogenarian passenger. I heard this tale from a shuddering autorickshaw driver while I was on my way to a relative’s place, only to then learn that the old man who had died was their apartment neighbour. On the same day, a bus ran over and killed a woman who was crossing the street.