Narrative
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6.4KOf journalism and censorship: The forgotten Rahber
Rahber, an institution in Journalism, a photographer who covered the 1931 massacre, was the founder of an Urdu weekly. A member of...
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Shifting landscape and searing anxiety in Kashmir
A volley of amended Acts post-Article 370 abrogation has unleashed a sense of distress in the valley where commoners are currently struggling...
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Tribute to a teacher
Reluctant to leave the warm lap, draped in care, I was scared. Unknown faces, strange voices and memories of home, made me...
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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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Memory: ‘Khaber kya chuk karun’; Sinister Plans
In the series titled The Memory Project, Free Press Kashmir aims to recreate the clampdown through people’s memories and document lived experiences of...
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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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‘I see India turning into Akhand Bharat’: Qazi Nisar’s letter to Rajiv Gandhi in 1987 warning against Hindu Extremism
In a letter written in 1987, to the then Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi, Qazi Nisar Ahmed, the slain Mirwaiz of South...
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A war is not a war, as long as Kashmir alone pays the price
Recently when an attack in Pulwama pushed the two nuclear armed countries India and Pakistan to the brink of war, anti-war hashtags...
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India’s moves in Kashmir are bad news for climate change activists and the ‘Global Environment’
On August 5, 2019, India, under the directions of its right-wing extremist BJP government, and without consulting either Kashmiris, Pakistan, or China,...
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Memory: ‘They’re fine’, was all that I knew about my family
Things seemed fine when I left Delhi for Kashmir on August 2, 2019. I was heading back home for a long holiday,...
