Kashmir banega Palestine?
Arif Ayaz Parrey demystifies the ongoing discourse on Kashmir's comparability with Palestine amid fears of settler colonialism.
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Kashmir Conflict
Kashmir: Maintaining a chord between religion and politics
Kashmir conflict straddles on notions of religious and the political ever since its inception in 1947 or even before that in 1931. In this short essay, Waseem Makai grapples with the question of religion and where does this question arise in the context of the larger Kashmir problem, and are we at any liberty to do away with this delineation.
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Mind and Militarization: a look at psychic disorders in Kashmir
The ongoing conflict in Kashmir has had multiple consequences for the Kashmiri society. One of the ignored and hidden consequence remains the deep impact conflict has had on the minds of Kashmiri people. This short essay by two doctors Khawar Khan Achakzai and Iqra Shah looks at the multiple effects conflict has borne on the psychological health of the Kashmiri people.
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Burden of Beauty: Symbolic Violence of Kashmir’s Video Stories
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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No one knows why Rahil became a militant
Bisma Bhat and Bilal Ahmad piece together the last moments of Kashmiri family’s search for their missing son, whose three day sojourn as a militant has left the family grieving and clueless.
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Children consumed by conflict: Remembering Owais
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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