Analysis
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2.7KTrojan horse and falling defences: Israel-type settlements feared amidst uncertainty over accession, citizens’ rights in JK
As Kashmir ups the ante over citizenship rights, on the first glance, popular mood on the street appears to have gone from...
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Let’s Speak: Why we need to abandon scholars who use religion to break the society
As part of Let’s Speak web series, Free Press Kashmir is starting a debate on different societal issues. In a first, here is...
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Propaganda against the ‘Religion of Peace’: The blatant Islamophobia in contemporary cinema
Certain movie plots and scripts seem to be an obvious manifestation of the polarized world order. Islamophobia being once such bashing subject...
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Why is a deafening silence prevailing over child sexual abuse in Kashmir?
Whenever any child sexual abuse case makes it to the headlines, a stormy reaction against the society’s ‘wavering’ moral compass starts. But...
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24 years later, Qazi Nisar continues to evoke ‘rebellion’ in Kashmir’s mindscape
Be it when he sacrificed sheep ‘in the town’ defying Governor Jagmohan’s order, be it the rise of the Muslim United Front...
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It’s bigger than tourism: Twisting facts, half truths and reporting with misrepresentations
In news writing, facts are sacred. The factual incidents also need a context, to place them in the right way, in which...
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‘We are not Dalits, we are indigenous Hindus of Pakistan’
Amid an internet rage that a “Pakistani Dalit woman” has made it to the senate in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Krishna...
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Staff Picks: Understanding Caste in Kashmir
Caste is the hereditary classification of society based on occupation, social status or economic position which distinguishes one group from the other....
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Revisiting 1940s: The legacy of Pakistan movement in Kashmir
On annual Kashmir Day on February 5, Islamabad reiterated ‘Kashmir and Pakistan are one soul in two hearts’. But much before the...
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The Pashmina Shawl: It’s almost doomsday, a re-birth is needed, not life support
Pashmina which became Kashmir’s first global introduction is now facing the death-knell fate of the Kashmiri silk. As an important part of...
