Commentary
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2.8KMy experiences of the ‘Day of Independence’, and the lack of it
Date: 15th August, some 10 years ago. Place: Kolkata. A schoolgirl wakes up early in the morning. She jumps off the bed...
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Is harassment of women becoming a new normal in Srinagar?
A recent Facebook post by Ivana Perkovic, a tourist and a travel blogger from Amsterdam regarding the harassment(s) faced by her at...
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Power to the people: Why Palestinian victory in Jerusalem is a pivotal moment
Neither Fatah nor Hamas have been of much relevance to the mass protests staged around Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem. Neither have...
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Over the dead natives: Necropolitics of the Indian state in Kashmir
“When the army surrounds us from everywhere, where would the people go?” asks a teary eyed shopkeeper from Bemina. Standing in a...
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Engineering mass mentality: 86 kilos of rejection, from Kashmir to Chennai and back
When a student from the mountains finds home in the marine land of Chennai, a hackneyed Kashmir to Kanyakumari link often surfaces....
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Speaking truth to power is no Romanticism
With summer dripping on our foreheads and vacations hurried into, because of the Burhan Wani and Martyrs Day anniversaries, we decided on...
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Fear and Trepidation in Tel Aviv: Is Israel Losing the Syria War?
Israel, which has played a precarious role in the Syrian war since 2011, is furious to learn that the future of the...
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Being a Witness: From scrapbook to photo book
Feeling creative unrest, a Srinagar teen made a scrapbook of newspaper images featuring the summer slain of 2008, only to emerge a...
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Kashmir, Chenab and the opening up of Kashmir to the world
Kashmiris have been treating their brothers and sisters from the Chenab and Pir Panjal Valleys very well since the last three decades,...
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The year of Burhan: A journalist’s account of what followed the killing
Reporting the conflict was not on my list when I pursued journalism as a passion. I wanted to travel, and write about...
