Khurram
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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Militarization
August siege: Notes on the Collective Punishment in Kashmir
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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August, A River and Other Unmovable Entities
In this story, Sadaf Wani presents a memory of an everyday that persists. It touches upon the relationship between gender and city-spaces in militarized Kashmir, narrated by a spirit that wanders around the city picking up peculiarities and stories.
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Me and Militarization: Memories of a crackdown
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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Me and Militarization: The New Normal
Dhaar Mehak dwells on the normalization of militarization and violence in the lives of ordinary Kashmiris over the years and a point in time where this 'normal' is questioned by young people and redefined in an era of political awakening.
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How a Kashmiri Girl’s Search for a Bathroom Became Truth vs. Lie, Us vs. Them and Patriot vs. Traitor
The essay by Shrimoyee Nandini Ghosh reflects on the theme of militarized sexual violence in Kashmir and reviews the responses to it by state and society by taking the Handwara minor girl's assault as an example.
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