Commentary
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3.0KAn affidavit to the ‘Invisible People’
Someone would have said: You people don’t know how beautiful you are. The beauty of your souls goes unnoticed, and one thing...
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5.1KLet’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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4.9KA 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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3.4KOf 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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3.2KPoint 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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8.1KBeyond 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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12.4KDeconstructing ‘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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10.8KAn 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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4.9KWhy 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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3.4KReturn 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...
