By Seema Kazi on 05/05/2016 @ 11:23 AM
Azadi, Kashmir, Kashmiri Women, Kunan-Poshpora, self-determination, Sexual Abuse
Commentaries

“People listened to the victim and they listened to the politicians, but this voice that says: I did this, we did things that were wrong – crimes actually – that’s a voice I did not hear” (David Grossman quoted by Jacqueline Rose, The Last Resistance, 2007). Among conflict and war-torn regions, Kashmir has one of […]
By Huda Ul Nisa on 28/03/2016 @ 11:59 AM
Islam, Kashmir, Kashmiri Women, Sexual Abuse
Society & Culture

She is just ‘she’. She doesn’t want to be named. She wants me to erase a part of her person. Another part was preyed upon when she was barely seven. Today she is 28 and a mother of a baby girl. For over 20 years, she has lived in the trauma of being sexually abused […]