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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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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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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