By Aasif Sultan The most effective way to destroy people,” says George Orwell, “is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” When the authorities decided to cage the Valley after Mohammad Afzal Guru was hanged in Tihar jail on 9 February 2013, the Kashmir University authorities, it appears, had decided to obliterate […]
They marry, they fall in love, they have kids, they have a happy family and they live happily ever after. This is how the usual line goes. But, is that for real? When I stepped into Kashmir’s only women’s police station I saw an entirely different world. A shocking, harsh and bitter reality of the […]
With surveillance and micro-profiling of Kashmiris reaching new levels, India’s top spy agency Intelligence Bureau (IB) seems to be mounting pressure on Kashmir University (KU) to crack down on its faculty which the agency accuses of pushing students towards militancy. A recent report by the IB accused KU faculty of being behind rising cases of […]