Caste Discrimination in Kashmir: Few Personal Observations

by Aqib Hussain
Posted on April 26, 2020April 29, 2020

Serious conversations on caste are often ignored in Kashmir. In this piece, Aqib Hussain offers some personal experiences of caste-based discrimination which merit attention.

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In Pictures: Dargah under lockdown

by Bisma Ali
Posted on April 18, 2020April 26, 2020

Bisma Ali sojourns Dargah amid COVID-19 lockdown and captures through her lens the still life around the most revered shrine of Kashmir.

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To Shahid, the Beloved Witness

by Aayilah Ahmad
Posted on March 1, 2020

Dear Shahid, The sun illuminates the paper I write on, the sound of...

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Khurram

by Sadaf Wani
Posted on February 28, 2020February 3, 2021

Fear is a ubiquitous element of being and yet it engenders a singular vocabulary for all of us. Khurram is one such portrait of the vocabulary of fear.

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In Memory: Mir Shafqat Hussain, the People’s Lawyer

by Inshah Malik
Posted on January 18, 2020April 29, 2020

On January 13, Kashmir lost one of its beloved human rights lawyers, Mir Shafqat Hussain. Here, Inshah Malik remembers her cousin.

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The mainstream is dead, long live the mainstream

by Arif Ayaz Parrey
Posted on January 16, 2020January 16, 2020

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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