Trauma of Kashmir's pellet-gun victims; India's democracy needs repair; how Sanatan Sanstha stayed afloat in Goa; and more 

[View this email in your browser]( Top Story [Losing Sight in Kashmir: Amnesty Report Highlights Trauma of Pellet-Gun Victims]( Mudasir Ahmad [Filled with black and white photographs of blinded pellet victims, the 109-page report has of one of the first victims, 15-year old Insha Mushtaq, a class 9 student from Shopian district of South Kashmir, on its cover. Shopian was the epicentre of the 2016 summer uprising. Insha – who lost sight in both eyes – had opened her street-facing kitchen window when she was pumped with hundreds of pellets by security forces. After 14 months and six surgeries in Srinagar, New Delhi and Mumbai, young Insha’s world is still dark.]( [Cassini Readies for 31 Km/s Dive Into Saturn, Bringing Epic Mission to Close]( Vasudevan Mukunth [While Cassini is often celebrated in the popular literature for its stunning photographs of Saturn’s rings, its more unique contributions have advanced our understanding of the planet’s moons.]( [Rajasthan Government Protecting Perpetrators of Pehlu Khan Lynching, Says Family]( Shruti Jain [The Rajasthan police has given a clean chit to the six people Pehlu Khan had named before he died.]( [Nepal’s Flood Recovery Set to Exclude the Most Marginalised]( Peter Gill and Bhola Paswan [Government aid for flood reconstruction is going to landowners rather than tenant farmers, who often enter verbal contracts and cannot prove their status.]( [Jan Dhan Yojana: One Rupee Balance and the Dormancy-Duplication Problem]( Anuj Srivas [Financial inclusion, when executed on a massive and essentially rushed scale, comes with two major issues.]( [Seventy Years On, India’s Democracy Is in Need of Urgent Repair]( Maja Daruwala [The corrosion of institutions and mechanisms to create democracy are so decayed that it is perhaps not even possible now for the best-intentioned governments to deliver democracy.]( [How Political Patronage Has Kept the Sanatan Sanstha Afloat in Goa]( Devika Sequeira [Starting out as just a fringe irritant, the shadowy organisation has been emboldened by the Goa government’s support.]( [Similipal, a Formidable Tiger Stronghold, Finally Has the Book It Deserves]( Raza Kazmi [The most striking aspect of Wilderness Tales from Similipal is a vivid picture of the forests that Satyesh Naik weaves through his words, so charming that you’re left wanting to visit a forest right away.]( Copyright © 2017 The Wire, All rights reserved. You're getting this email because you recently subscribed to receive email digests from The Wire via our website. Our mailing address is: The Wire 13, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Marg Gole MarketNew Delhi 110001 India [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](