Making Sense of Mehbooba Mufti

by Rouf Bhat
Posted on January 28, 2017March 15, 2017

It exposes her art of creating confusion among the readers’ mind to camouflage the ground realities in order to escape the responsibilities. Moreover, people wonder if Mehbooba, as a person, has her own ideas or not or she will keep quoting her father tirelessly?

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A Wande Mohneuv from Delhi

by Basharat Ali
Posted on January 25, 2017March 15, 2017

Who says snow is not political? A snowman is always a militant. The unending carpet spread over gaam-o-shehar is a slogan in itself. Sheeni jung is a net practice for stone throwing. In our national consciousness, snow is as sacred as what brings it, Wande.

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Fouji Chhuti Peth – Trooper on Leave

by Shahnaz Bashir
Posted on January 19, 2017March 15, 2017

Fouji Chhutti Peth is the first short fiction ever written in Diacritical Roman Kashmiri language. The story is also Shahnaz Bashir's first Kashmiri language fiction.

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Numberalism: Numbers as symbolism?

by Muhammad Tahir
Posted on January 15, 2017March 15, 2017

In this essay Muhammad Tahir evokes Roland Barthes famous definition of myth to describe the symbolic appeal of numbers – and the power they hold – in the nationalistic and counter-nationalistic projects all over the world, including in Kashmiri struggle.

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May the Army be Defeated

by Sahana Mukherjee
Posted on January 13, 2017March 15, 2017

This poem, written in October, 2016 is in response to what was happening in Kashmir at that time; when Kashmir flooded in abundance of blood, bullets and stones.

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Notes on Friends and Family

by Tavseef Mairaj
Posted on January 7, 2017March 15, 2017

“Burhan govv nah Shaheed” (Burhan got martyred), declared my 8 year old cousin when I asked him, on phone, why he had not been to his school for the last four months, precisely since Eid ul Fitr.

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