Commentary

Kashmir’s one year as an ‘integral part’ of Modi’s India

What would George Orwell have made of Kashmir’s situation in 2020? His prophetic work on extensive government over-reach, mass surveillance and repressive...

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Administering silence on the women of Kashmir

On July 4, New Delhi based TV Channel India Today ran a special program juxtaposing two simultaneous lockdowns in Kashmir, the period...

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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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The politics of visuals and propaganda of photographs

Bashir Ahmed, a civil contractor, resident of HMT, Srinagar, was shot dead in Sopore yesterday. The police has said that he was...

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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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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...