Burden of Beauty: Symbolic Violence of Kashmir’s Video Stories

by Waseem Ahad
Posted on June 3, 2019

In this piece Waseem Ahad examines one video story, capturing the pastoral beauty of his native village and at the same time erasing the realities which fuel social life here, to highlight the internalization of the ‘beauty’ trope by the people of Kashmir as an exemplar of symbolic violence.

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Children consumed by conflict: Remembering Owais

by G. N. Khan
Posted on April 16, 2019

Children are the worst sufferers of the ongoing conflict in Kashmir, advocate G.N Khan writes. The killing of an 11-year-old Owais on an election day opens up the question of how many more kids will die before Kashmir emerges out of the morass of conflict and death.

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An attic and some anarchy

by Towfeeq Wani
Posted on March 30, 2019

Attics are a unique Kashmiri architectural invention. To keep off discarded household items or as a personal museum of house members, attics serve different purposes in Kashmiri household, explains Towfeeq Wani.

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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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