Commentary
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2.9KA dispatch from America: ‘I too am a witness’
Kashmiris living in America lately experienced the agonised situation at home through playwright Arshad Mushtaq’s play ‘Bea Chus Shahid’. As an audience...
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Of Nakba, Resistance and ‘Right of Return’ of the people of Palestine
When Google Earth was initially released in 2001, I immediately rushed to locate a village that no longer exists on a map,...
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Point of View: A State of Exception
In a small hamlet in Kulgam, last year, a child was playing on the attic of his house with his toygun. An...
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Beyond the Bhagwat and Owaisi Rhetoric: Does the ‘secular integrity’ of the Indian Army really exist?
The events and statements that have unfolded in the last few days have made us think, again: If the Army is sacrosanct?...
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Deconstructing ‘Kashmiriyat’: ‘A myth woven around history’
Before being shot dead by RSS man Nathuram Godse this day, 70 years ago, MK Gandhi had seen ‘a ray of hope...
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An Indian scholar from Cambridge maps the massacre at Gaw Kadal
The first time I came to Kashmir, I heard it more than once that every street in Kashmir has seen bloodshed, every...
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Why rewarding Rajasthan psychopath highlights an existential crisis for Indian Muslims
When Nathuram Godse assassinated Mahatma Gandhi, “women from respectable Hindu families sent him a sweater they had made for him.” 70 years...
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Return of the prodigal son and his encounter with Kashmir’s work culture
It was in the summer of 2014 when I decided to return home. I, like many others of my age had been...
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Extravagance has ruined the great institution of marriage
Weddings are no more a mere union of individuals and a private affair. They’ve rather become a symbol of wealth exhibition and...
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Jammu Massacre: What it meant to be a Muslim woman in Jammu in 1947
Modern history’s least documented massacre that reportedly heaped 2.3 lakh Muslim bodies in Jammu by Nov 1947 is tailed by countless stories...
