Seer Hamdan: a standing metaphor of communal harmony

by Aasif Shafi
Posted on July 23, 2018July 24, 2018

Seer Hamdan is a village in Anantnag district of Kashmir where Kashmiri Pandits and Muslims have not allowed religion to contest their belongingness to shared spaces and symbols. The photo-story captures the voices of the villagers and symbols of communal harmony amongst them.

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Reclaiming street spaces – A photo essay

by Insha bint Bashir
Posted on July 12, 2018

The graffiti in this photo essay by Insha bint Bashir are all taken in Islamabad (Anantnag) district of the Kashmir valley and is an attempt to place these graffiti in the contestation of public spaces in Kashmir.

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Snow stories from Kashmir

by Shabir Ahmad Mir
Posted on July 5, 2018

Conflict cruelly touches the lives of people who live amidst it. It’s not the dead alone that are the victims. The snow stories in this collection by Shabir Ahmad are joined together by the mutual thread of conflict and war in Kashmir. The beautiful imagery in these stories paints a sketch of profound anguish and hollowness that conflict induces in the lives of normal individuals.

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United Nations and the Kashmir Struggle: What does recent UN report mean for Kashmir?

by Muhammad Daniyal Ubaidullah
Posted on June 25, 2018

In this brief piece, Muhammad Daniyal Ubaidullah takes a cursory look at the OHCHR report on Kashmir and tries to find out what it means for the freedom struggle in Kashmir. He asks whether the reactions coming out of Kashmir are proportionate to what the report holds for Kashmiris or are these reactions just misplaced underdog enthusiasm?

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Stunning debut of 2018 by Feroz Rather: HarperCollins publishes Kashmiri writer’s The Night of Broken Glass

by Irfan Mehraj
Posted on June 24, 2018June 28, 2018

Feroz Rather’s remarkable debut is as much a paean to the beauty of Kashmir and the courage of its people as it is a dirge to a paradise lost.

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Rule of the ‘Lawless Law’: Detentions under the Public Safety Act in Kashmir

by Gaurav Bhawnani
Posted on June 10, 2018

An examination of 100 cases in which Kashmiri youth were detained under the draconian PSA following the death of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen Commander Burhan Wani reveals that both the state executive and the judiciary are complicit in perpetuating this “lawless law.”

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Seer Hamdan: a standing metaphor of communal harmony

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United Nations and the Kashmir Struggle: What does recent UN report mean for Kashmir?

Rule of the ‘Lawless Law’: Detentions under the Public Safety Act in Kashmir

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Seer Hamdan: a standing metaphor of communal harmony

Reclaiming street spaces – A photo essay

Snow stories from Kashmir

United Nations and the Kashmir Struggle: What does recent UN report mean for Kashmir?

Stunning debut of 2018 by Feroz Rather: HarperCollins publishes Kashmiri writer’s The Night of Broken Glass

Rule of the ‘Lawless Law’: Detentions under the Public Safety Act in Kashmir