Kashmir: Maintaining a chord between religion and politics

by Waseem Makai
Posted on July 25, 2019

Kashmir conflict straddles on notions of religious and the political ever since its inception in 1947 or even before that in 1931. In this short essay, Waseem Makai grapples with the question of religion and where does this question arise in the context of the larger Kashmir problem, and are we at any liberty to do away with this delineation.

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Mind and Militarization: a look at psychic disorders in Kashmir

by Khawar Khan Achakzai and Iqra Shah
Posted on July 20, 2019July 20, 2019

The ongoing conflict in Kashmir has had multiple consequences for the Kashmiri society. One of the ignored and hidden consequence remains the deep impact conflict has had on the minds of Kashmiri people. This short essay by two doctors Khawar Khan Achakzai and Iqra Shah looks at the multiple effects conflict has borne on the psychological health of the Kashmiri people.

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The Moment of Tueth

by Lawai BemBem
Posted on July 4, 2019

A group of young Kashmiri performing artists enact a performance in the heart of Srinagar, while some onlookers look on and some feebly participate. The essay is a recollection of the act by an Imphal based playwright BemBem on her experience with Noon Tueth, and some more experiences related to it.

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Book Review: A Desolation Called Peace

by Sohini Chatterjee
Posted on July 2, 2019July 9, 2019

Sohini Chatterjee argues that the book, by foregrounding the lived realities of Kashmiris who came of age from 1947 to 1989, challenges the mainstream history of the Valley told through the narrow lens of the dispute between India and Pakistan.

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Burden of Beauty: Symbolic Violence of Kashmir’s Video Stories

by Waseem Ahad
Posted on June 3, 2019

In this piece Waseem Ahad examines one video story, capturing the pastoral beauty of his native village and at the same time erasing the realities which fuel social life here, to highlight the internalization of the ‘beauty’ trope by the people of Kashmir as an exemplar of symbolic violence.

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No one knows why Rahil became a militant

by Bisma Bhat & Bilal Ahmad
Posted on May 5, 2019May 5, 2019

Bisma Bhat and Bilal Ahmad piece together the last moments of Kashmiri family’s search for their missing son, whose three day sojourn as a militant has left the family grieving and clueless.

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Wande Magazine

an army of stories

Kashmir: Maintaining a chord between religion and politics

The Moment of Tueth

Book Review: A Desolation Called Peace

Burden of Beauty: Symbolic Violence of Kashmir’s Video Stories

No one knows why Rahil became a militant

Children consumed by conflict: Remembering Owais

Longread: Routines of Resistance

An attic and some anarchy

Me and Militarization: No fond memories of childhood for Kashmiri children

Me and Militarization: For a Kashmiri child war is the only image

Human/Woman: A two-part poem by Huzaafa

Me and Militarization: Memories of a crackdown

Kashmir: Maintaining a chord between religion and politics

Mind and Militarization: a look at psychic disorders in Kashmir

The Moment of Tueth

Book Review: A Desolation Called Peace

Burden of Beauty: Symbolic Violence of Kashmir’s Video Stories

No one knows why Rahil became a militant