Kashmiri Pandit Funeral

When 40-year-old Baby Koul died on Sunday, hundreds of villagers turned up at the funeral at Levdora village in south Kashmir. Koul has left behind four children and it's the second tragedy for the siblings who had lost their father just a year ago. Despite being the only Pandit family in the village, the orphaned children say they don't feel alone...

The feeling of discrimination extends from ill-treating Kashmiris in the rest of India, to the PM not attending the funeral of Chief Mufti though doing so in the case of Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, to arresting the children under the infamous Public Safety Act and keeping them in regular jails with hardened criminals instead of juvenile homes, to ...

Eid was a day of mourning, not celebration, at a village in Kashmir's Pulwama district. Muslims were mourning the death of a Hindu neighbour, Ramchand Koul, a Kashmiri Pandit who had refused to leave the Valley during the militancy-related exodus of 1990.

When 40-year-old Baby Koul died on Sunday, hundreds of villagers turned up at the funeral at Levdora village in south Kashmir. Koul has left behind four children and it's the second tragedy for the siblings who had lost their father just a year ago. Despite being the only Pandit family in the village, the orphaned children say they don't feel alone...

The feeling of discrimination extends from ill-treating Kashmiris in the rest of India, to the PM not attending the funeral of Chief Mufti though doing so in the case of Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, to arresting the children under the infamous Public Safety Act and keeping them in regular jails with hardened criminals instead of juvenile homes, to ...

Eid was a day of mourning, not celebration, at a village in Kashmir's Pulwama district. Muslims were mourning the death of a Hindu neighbour, Ramchand Koul, a Kashmiri Pandit who had refused to leave the Valley during the militancy-related exodus of 1990.