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.
Wande Magazine reproduces here the case study of the massacre, preset with a short note on mass violence by Mahum Shabir, the co-author of the report Structures of Violence.
Waseem Ahmed explores the impact of footballer-turned-militant Majid Khan's surrender on armed establishment's surrender policy for Kashmiri militants. The inconsistency in following the surrender policy in the past and the hardships faced by the surrendered militants casts doubt about government’s intentions.
In this excerpt from Wular Kinaray, Geelani talks about the year of 1947, the tribal invasion and landing of Indian troops in Kashmir as he witnessed it.