Baba Umar

Senior Correspondent

Baba Umar’s career started with The Indian Express in Srinagar where he reported on the South Asia earthquake of 2005. In the following years, he wrote features for Kashmir’s first online news magazine Kashmir Newz and in 2008 he joined Rising Kashmir as a senior reporter where he covered 2008-09-10 civil unrest. Baba specializes in producing stories mostly on Kashmir conflict and water disputes in India. Baba joined Tehelka in 2010 and the next year saw him winning ICRC (Geneva)-Press Institute of India (PII) award for his news report on victims of armed conflict in Kashmir.

Articles By Baba Umar
‘Even the Taliban respects us for our work in Afghanistan’

Gherado Pontrandolfi, Head of the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) Delegation in Afghanistan was recently...  

27,000 dead goats. Is it pashmina’s turn next?

Since January, 13 percent of the Changra goats has been wiped out, threatening the lucrative Pashmina industry...  

Knocking on Hell’s Door

Suicide is considered un-Islamic, then why are Kashmiri Muslims taking their own lives?  

Repeal AFSPA, PSA from Kashmir and North East: UN Special Rapporteur

As many as 40 separate depositions were made during the meeting, unarguably the largest one ever convened...  

‘Many of India’s development challenges are linked to how the country mines coal’

Senior journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta has closely followed the issues around coal mining in the past, along...  

Is Omar passing the buck on AFSPA?

Legal experts claim the J&K Assembly and the Cabinet have the power to revoke AFSPA in the...  

The Message is the Medium

A new art initiative has turned decades of bad headlines into distinctive papier-mâché boxes to send to...  

Anger rises in their crosshairs

Since Afzal Guru’s hanging, 650 police and CRPF personnel have been injured. The stone-pelters’ rage is known....  

The Curious Case of Liaquat Shah

Will this man’s arrest dissuade former militants from returning in search of a new life, asks Baba...  

Has Liaquat’s arrest jeopardised Omar’s surrender policy?

On 20 March, Delhi Police claimed to have arrested Hizbul Mujahideen’s top militant sent to launch attacks...  

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