Opinion
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2.0KPoets of Kashmir: Inspiration and the Artistic Process
Poetry that has emerged from Kashmir spans across mystical baeth, love songs, travel narratives, philosophical studies and dramas written in verse. Since...
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The ignored exoduses of Kashmiri Muslims—Part I: Slavery and subjugation
The word “exodus” has become almost rhetorical in the Kashmiri political discourse, however, the political connotations underpinning it have largely ignored the...
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Why Agha Shahid Ali’s new biography is a loose bag of emotions
Shahid is shown like any other human being who has the zest to perfect his writing and reach the zenith like an...
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Ordinary violence in ‘Rumours of Spring’ by Farah Bashir
Girlhood is both confusing and aspirational. It is a time to figure out your place in the world as the margins that...
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‘From majority to disempowered minority’: Politics of Delimitation in JK
It is never an event. It is always a process of several steps, at times far from one another, that slowly progress...
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Contextualising the alleged case of forced conversion and Sikh minority rights in Kashmir — Muzamil Jaleel
The controversy surrounding the marriage of a Sikh girl and the politics around it needs to be put in proper context. First,...
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SOS and Prxphecy are defining Koshur Hip-Hop’s sound with Czawul
Urban dictionary defines “sampling” as “the process of taking a brief segment of sound and using that sound to form another sound...
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Lone Brothers, and the hunting expedition of Roosevelts via Kashmir
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (TR-Jr.) (1887-1944) and Kermit Roosevelt (1889-1943), the two eldest sons of 26th President of USA Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) inherited...
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Evolution of Alif: ‘Siyah’ pushes the boundaries of original music
Alif’s new album Siyah has dropped. Haal is the first of the four volumes of the Siyah series. For many, it may...
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Hafizas of Kashmir: Dancers, and dark history of institutionalised flesh trade
By Showkat Rasheid Wani, and Khawar Khan Achakzai. The British had no legal and moral rights to transfer the hereditary and...
