The mainstream needs to own the anguish, alienation and aspiration in Kashmir and strive for a resolution of the political issue
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Ironically, Hizb chief has never talked about any global agenda of the Kashmiri struggle against Indian rule
The idea is to give a dog an ill name to hang him.
Illustration by Suhail Naqshbandi/KI
Illustration by Suhail Naqshbandi/KI
The Kashmiri resistance movement is not a symptom or a by-product of global Islamic movements
Not only are the Indian media and the government distorting the truth, even common people are now getting in on the act
Illustration: Suhail Naqshbandi/KI
Illustration by Suhail Naqshbandi/ KI
Right now, the state of affairs in India is a cauldron of sectarian passion
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Conflict not only consumes lives, it creates confusion and chaos.
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Illustration by Suhail Naqshandi
Even 28 years after his execution, Maqbool Bhatt ‘remains in prison’
Illustration by Suhail Naqshbandi
Illustration by Suhail Naqshbandi/ KI
The idea of Kashmiriyat acquires sinister dimensions when it is repeatedly propagated by the state actors and defined as per their convenience and attendant agendas for the people of Kashmir
Illustration by Suhail Naqshbandi
Illustration by Suhail Naqshbandi
Illustration by Suhail Naqshbandi
Growing up in small town India, in an age of jingoistic cinema that openly professed its love for violence, Kashmir was always so present in mainstream discourse that it was rendered absent
Illustration by Suhail Naqshbandi
Illustration by Suhail Naqshbandi
Illustration by Suhail Naqshbandi
These stark episodes of ‘self-mutilation’ may be very much evident but there is yet more grievous fallout of the endless hartals.
The Post-Burhan people’s uprising has been painted by some middle class writers in Kashmir as a failure.
Whenwe analyse the Kashmiri society's attitudes towards the resistance movement, we find that our elite generallyhave dreams that are bereft of resilience, which is indispensible for realisation of any goal.
In the end, or, in the beginning of the end, Kashmir floats, unlike the other cliché: Hope floats
New generations of Kashmiris will need to directly enter and expand Tehreek’s politics and vision, energize its political culture by learning and connecting with planet-wide progressive movements, and fearlessly open themselves to voices that come from the margins of our society
Resistance Literature specifically rebels against this hedonism, and uses art as a tool of perpetuating struggle which lends it a permanence as every age finds its own contradictions and struggle for power.
When Burhan Wani was killed, the mainstream Indian media and the hyper nationalist Indian twitterati did not stop at any lengths to label him an Islamic radical and a terrorist, given his affiliation with Hizbul Mujahideen.
What is it that these young men are trying to achieve, and are they succeeding?
cThe incredible 1977 victory of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah was a sore spot for late Mufti Sayeed, a wound that never healed
Story of Kashmir, frame by intriguing frame
The answer is not a pre-given model of society, say a nation-state or a state of being, but a process of seeking, searching, and thinking-through
India may have militarily defeated separatism, but its sovereignty lacks a veneer of moral legitimacy in the eyes of many Kashmiris
For a vast majority of Indians, Kashmir is not about reality at all
Abhijit Dutta
The Invitation – An Introduction to Letter to an Unknown Artist
Jane Rankin-Reid
It is a testament to our resilience that freedom movement is going on despite all efforts by India to suppress it
Syed Ali Shah Geelani