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A Besieged Valley Engulfed by Rumours and Panic
03 Aug 2019
Secularism and constitutionalism tie Kashmir to India, not Sangh Parivar’s ideas.
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How Kashmir’s Reality is Being Masked by the Language of Propaganda
28 Jul 2019
Mirza Waheed’s ‘The Collaborator’ engages with the historical memory of Kashmiris and brings them out of hegemonic power discourses.
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A Pandit’s Longing for Homeland, and a Kashmiri Muslim’s Sense of Betrayal
19 Jul 2019
Siddhartha Gigoo’s The Garden of Solitude is a significant and insightful piece of historical fiction on the experiences of Kashmiri Pandits vis-a-vis armed militancy and modern Kashmiri history and…
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Plight of Education in Jammu and Kashmir
11 Jul 2019
These fault lines demand immediate course correction which should be promptly pursued with dedication and priority if we are really serious about the future of our society.
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Reflection of Contemporary Kashmir in Agha Shahid Ali’s Poetry
30 Jun 2019
The essence of the Kashmiri-American poet’s literary expression lies in the brilliant combination of the aesthetic and political.
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Kashmir: The Way Forward Out of the Predicament
18 Jun 2019
Since it is the secular and democratic foundations which bind India and Kashmir, resolving Kashmir's simmering political discontents is also a great test of the secular, democratic and federal nature…
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Kashmiri Pandits: A Community in Exile Finds its Voice Through Poetry
09 Jun 2019
In their poetry, the Kashmiri Pandit poets engage with the multitude of experiences which emanate from their exodus and their subsequent life as migrants.
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BJP’s Second Term: More Disaster for Kashmir?
29 May 2019
The provocative statements made by top BJP leaders pertaining to the abolition of Article 35-A and Article 370, along with the usual rants of following a more hard and muscular policy in the state…
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ISIS, an Imperialist Terror By-Product, is Antithetical to Kashmiri Struggle
17 May 2019
Terror groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda were created and are backed by US imperialism with the aim of maintaining and spreading its political, economic and military hegemony.
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J&K’s Peasantry and Workers -- Caught Between Indifference and Gunfights
08 May 2019
The upper and upper-middle-class Kashmiris may have become richer, but small land-owning peasants and urban workers are living in terrible conditions. They are either under huge debt burden or facing…