Posts By Khawar Khan Achakzai
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829CommentaryOf 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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1.1KHeritage
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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1.4KCensorship
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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1.2KCommentary
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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1.9KConflict
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....
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1.7K1Commentary
Menstruation in Ramzan: A ‘shame’ that isn’t
Menstruation predates language, so do the taboos associated with it. The primitive civilisations saw menstruation as an anathema, but even the most...
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1.7KAchievers
Kashmiris who received international recognition for their work in journalism, literature and human rights
The list is a work in progress and open to updates. The announcement by Dana Canedy, the administrator of the Pulitzer...
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1.6KHealth
Using gas heaters in closed spaces can lead to CO poisoning, here are steps you can take to avoid it
As winter comes, the number of patients in hospitals suffering from Carbon Monoxide (CO) poisoning increases. While the winter has arrived in...
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1.4KNarrative
A poetic rendezvous: In conversation with the Bard of Old City
As long as there has been war, there’ve been poets and writers, translating the debris and loss of the battlefield into a...
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2.4KOpinion
Women in Kashmir are silenced to shame, and the shame is not theirs, it’s yours
“It was then when I felt a hand brushing my rear. I tried to ignore it, hoping it was accidental and started...
