Opinion
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4.8KA 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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6.5KPropaganda against the ‘Religion of Peace’: The blatant Islamophobia in contemporary cinema
Certain movie plots and scripts seem to be an obvious manifestation of the polarized world order. Islamophobia being once such bashing subject...
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5.4KWhy is a deafening silence prevailing over child sexual abuse in Kashmir?
Whenever any child sexual abuse case makes it to the headlines, a stormy reaction against the society’s ‘wavering’ moral compass starts. But...
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5.2KWalking the Sufi Trails: Hike to Baba Reshi’s mountain abode
As part of the Nature Exploring series, Free Press Kashmir presents the first story on the Sufi Trails. In this piece, the...
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9.3K24 years later, Qazi Nisar continues to evoke ‘rebellion’ in Kashmir’s mindscape
Be it when he sacrificed sheep ‘in the town’ defying Governor Jagmohan’s order, be it the rise of the Muslim United Front...
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2.1KRemembering my first mentor in journalism
Back in 2015, when as a university student I went to join Rising Kashmir, I had my apprehensions. Even as I spoke...
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4.1KAtul Kochhar is not a chef, he is just a bigot filled with hate, says a Muslim chef from Kashmir
Atul Kochhar, the celebrity chef had tweeted that Hindus have been ‘terrorized by Islam for 2000 years’. After a severe backlash, Kochhar...
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13.3KFor the love of language: Kashmir’s new age Urdu poets—Part II
Showcasing her multilingual poetic expertise on social media, rhymester Rumuz E Bekhudi has emerged as one of the promising poets from Kashmir...
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14.1KFor the love of language: Kashmir’s new age Urdu poets—Part I
From the 13th century saintly figures like Lal Ded and Shiekh ul Aalam to progressive writers like Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor and Abdul...
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4.0KThe New York Times must get its facts right on Kashmir
In polarised times like these, when the world is increasingly electing strongmen to power, institutions swiftly change their stand on the legitimate...
