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Freny Manecksha is an independent journalist from Mumbai, India. She is interested in human rights and gender based issues. Her first book 'Behold, I Shine: Narratives of Kashmir's Women and Children' was published by Rupa Publications in 2017.

August siege: Notes on the Collective Punishment in Kashmir

  • by Freny Manecksha
  • Posted on January 4, 2020April 29, 2020
Journalist Freny Manecksha traveled to Kashmir in October last year to collect details of torture, detentions, and molestation by Indian security forces in different places across the Valley.

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Notebook of Asiya Jeelani: Survivor and witness to the violence of 2004 elections

  • by Freny Manecksha
  • Posted on May 20, 2018May 21, 2018
Journalist and author Freny Manecksha revisits 'the longest day in the history of Kashmiri activism' by sifting through Aasiya Jeelani's notebook and bringing out the memories of the day through people she left behind. 

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Sujatha Gidla: Under ‘independent’ India, caste has become more virulent and violent

  • by Freny Manecksha
  • Posted on March 11, 2018
In this interview with author and journalist Freny Manecksha, the novelist Sujatha Gidla talks about the persistence of caste in India and its violent manifestations, her book and her experiences of caste while growing up in India.

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Breaking Silences: The Rape of Gujjar Women

  • by Freny Manecksha
  • Posted on February 28, 2018
The excerpt from Freny Manecksha’s book Behold I Shine breaks silence on rape of Gujjar women at the hands of Indian armed forces and how similar patterns of fear, coercion and impunity are employed to silence the victims.

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Heroic Deeds of Ordinary People: a Commemoration

  • by Freny Manecksha
  • Posted on February 13, 2017March 15, 2017
It is the collective efforts of thousands that have informed me of daily acts of quiet heroism, of dignity and honour. Each status update, tweet, bit of writing, visual image or comment has contributed to layer the narratives, to give a human face to statistics.

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