The mainstream is dead, long live the mainstream
In this piece, Arif Ayaz Parrey argues that the events of 5 August 2019 may not affect the so-called mainstream politics in Kashmir in the way we might have imagined.
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Congress and Kashmir: The Dogma of Deception
In this piece, Khan Khawar Achakzai argues that Congress's role in Kashmir's politics is as deceptive and corroded as the BJPs' is brazen and open.
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A view from Kashmir: Clientelistic Insiders and Faction-Running Outsiders
Kashmir based political historian Ashiq Hussain argues that Kashmir based political parties - cutting across ideologies - practice clientistic and faction-based politics without any programme for delivering public services ranging from national defence to internal order, rule of law or equal distribution of resources.
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Of History and Pakistan
Umair Gul makes a case for Pakistan sentiment in Kashmir, its historicity and its large following among masses in context of the recent essays published in Wande Magazine.
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History as Politics: On Writing Past
Amit Kumar, a scholar of history, responds and critiques the method of writing about past employed by two Kashmir scholars in the essay The Politics of a Struggle.
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The Politics of a Struggle
Two Kashmir scholars look at the genesis and the development of pro-Pakistan sentiment in Jammu and Kashmir, or for that matter idea of independent Kashmir and argue how both political leanings cannot be understood without taking into account the internal politics of the Kashmir struggle in relation to the concept of the nation-state.
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