By Leya Mathew
What Ajay Raina has compiled and presented is but a part of Tikoo’s efforts. The work of activism is long and dreary; some of the ordeals of life under siege can be glimpsed through what Raina chronicles in ‘Mout`e Rang’.
Tag: Kashmir
By Quratulain Qureshi
So, while we pray for your olives of Filastin to flourish,
We ask you to pray for the olive of Kasheer to wither.
By Aijaz Ahmad Turrey
One of the important questions asked was to prohibit the use of ‘Human Shield’ during encounters and search operations.
By Kabir Ahmad
Those who killed you muffled our shrieks as well. Anyone who holds a bit of courage to let out a cry might be taken away and consigned to a horrible fate.
By Faisal Rather
At 8 AM, the Indian troops started to leave and unlocked us from the room. After some time, we noticed that the watch and some cash of my elder brother were missing.
By Aindrila Chakraborty
The history of Pashmina, which today is globally consumed as an item of luxury, as an item symbolic of Kashmir and Kashmiri culture, is inextricably linked with commodity fetishism, in one of its early forms, entangled with the larger processes of colonialism.
By Subhajit Pal
Why is a tourist not allowed to have a bird’s eye-view of the alleged heaven? Is it because of the view of the heavily loaded cantonments might disturb the imagination of a traveller to this heaven?
By Subhajit Pal
To dig deeper, the cityscape of Srinagar in Kashmir is filled with mosques and bazaars and the placement of mosques in every neighbourhood testifies to its Islamic roots and belonging.
By Somok Roy
This extraordinary emphasis on 1947 ignores the longer genealogies of the Kashmiri peoples’ struggles for citizenship rights, and the emergence of an ‘Islamic language’ of resistance in response to the Dogra state that explicitly fashioned itself as a Hindu ruling house.
By Muddasir Ramzan
The grief and regret that they couldn’t be there when Babb and Moji needed them the most would haunt Ammi, Maam Jan, Chota Maam, Pyari, and Choti Masi forever.
By Arman Kazmi
Old women in Kashmir quite often utter this phrase while giving their blessings to an unmarried woman, “Khuda Soznei Ruth Kharidar” (May God send a worthy buyer for you).
By Tanveer Khan & Wasia Hamid
People in Kashmir have assigned a significance to the hanging of coloured water bottles with the belief that it would protect them from the evil eye, coronavirus, crackdown, and encounters.
By Mir Sajad
Kashmir has seen Jhelum as the chronicler of sufferings recording the ebb and tides of tyrannical memories and now in this Eid it has cast a ghostly shadow over the land.
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