Opinion
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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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4.9KOf travelling hearts and contemporary poets: Reading Sonnet Mondal
Poetry being a mellow saga of traveling hearts and dimensions has pushed poets over centuries to travel and traverse across borders to...
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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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6.6KPropaganda 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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5.5KWhy 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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5.3KWalking 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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9.4K24 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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4.2KAtul 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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13.5KFor 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...
