Written
by: Showkat A. Motta.. Saltanat Farooq was four-years-old
when ‘the tragedy’ struck. “I remember it was a cold morning,
and my mother tells me the date was January 21, 1990”. Saltanat is
26, and what she calls ‘the tragedy’ is etched in the collective
memory of the Kashmiris as the Gaw Kadal massacre. It’s named after
the Gaw Kadal Bridge - a British era wooden structure in the heart of
Kashmir’s...