Posts By Khawar Khan Achakzai
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108CommentaryEducation, and pedagogy: Why we need de-schooling
Our society has fabricated a self-pitiable ‘education’ system in which qualifying exams has become a delusional testimony of how good or bad...
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150Opinion
Political identity and ethno-nationalism: A vexed question
Modern nation states and their ideological underpinnings are a challenge to the question of identity and has ironically taken the question of...
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411Literature
Faiz’s Love: Allys and Kashmir
Faiz Ahmad Faiz was one of the greatest poets of Urdu language. He had a rare distinction of being an equally renowned...
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708History
Queen Didda: Between facts and fantasy
The histories are of marked by men or women who become the epicentres of debate for generations to come. Kashmir history in...
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786Commentary
Myths and misconception: Origins of the name ‘Kashmir’
In this article, the author tries to go beyond the traditionally accepted etymologies behind the origin of the word Kashmir According to...
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1.3KCommentary
Of revelation and reason: Ibn Taymiyyah’s ‘literalist rationalism’
It has been an unfortunate norm in the history of Islamic culture that the greatest names, who defended it from the onslaught...
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2.1KHeritage
Oral Memory: Kashmiri proverbs as political commentary
A Kashmiri woman’s innocent take on politics has won hearts on the Internet as she talks about the new Governor. But Kashmiris...
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2.0KCensorship
Is the New Media Policy and censorship on free press a new phenomenon? History proves otherwise
The New Media Policy has been called Orwellian by international press bodies, but censorship in Kashmir did not start with it. The...
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1.4KCommentary
Hindu Rashtra, Kashmiri Pandits and the Muslim Sultanate
The Hindu Rashtra project of Brahman supremacy was established and successfully executed in Kashmir, long before the idea hit popular imagination in...
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2.3KConflict
Ghulam Rassul Galwan: The Kashmiri explorer Ladakh’s high altitude battlefield is named after
There are rare instances where a major geographical feature is named after a native explorer who put it on a western map....
