Longread: Routines of Resistance

by Amrita Sharma & Peerzada Raouf
Posted on April 2, 2019

The essay by Amrita Sharma and Peerzada Raoof is a compilation of some everyday practices and thoughts that make the Kashmiri resistance today. A selection of a few encounters and events, this effort is part of an ethnographic project in progress. The essay is a product of deliberations sparked off after massive street protests by women in the valley earlier last year and the public reprimand issued to them.

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

by Aasia Hassan
Posted on March 28, 2019

In this piece, the author has a conversation with friends from India about childhood memories. The author talks about how she has very few fond memories as she can only remember living in a state of constant fear while growing up in Kashmir.

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

by Uzdah Jawaid
Posted on March 24, 2019

Uzdah Jawaid in her personal memoir talks about her experiences of growing up in the midst of conflict in Kashmir and questions if Kashmiris have the same human rights as the rest of the world.

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Me and Militarization: Memories of a crackdown

by Shazia Ahad
Posted on March 22, 2019

Crackdowns were an order of the day during the turbulent nineties. In this piece, Shazia Ahad pieces together a memory of a crackdown prompted by Habib Naqash photograph.

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The New Mainstream and the Coming Counter Revolution in Kashmir

by Burhan Qureshi
Posted on March 20, 2019March 20, 2019

Burhan Qureshi argues that the events of the last decade have yet again crystallized the crisis of legitimacy and control in Kashmir. The 'New Mainstream’ seeks to restore this lost legitimacy and faith in the State by offering itself as an 'unstained' ally to it

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The myth of Maqbool Bhat

by Ashiq Hussain
Posted on March 16, 2019

Political historian Ashiq Hussain claims nothing stirred in Kashmir when Maqbool Bhat was executed in 1984 as Maqbool was not considered a hero. In this piece, the author recollects memories of the day of the hanging and how the cultish figure of Maqbool Bhat was renewed post his hanging.

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