Recent political developments in Kashmir appear as part of a larger design: to knock out the mainstream regional parties whose Autonomy, Self-Rule or Achievable Nationhood proposals would often clash with Delhi’s Kashmir motives. Will it go down in the history as GoI’s yet another Kashmir blunder? By Sabira Shah Some senior BJP leaders of […]
By Farooq Shah Once during an interview, senior resistance leader and Muslim Conference chairman Prof Abdul Gani Bhat said the Hurriyat leadership failed to ‘capitalise’ on the sacrifices of the Kashmiri people. Prof Bhat while referring to the 2008 agitation in the wake of land transfer to Amarnath Shrine Board that claimed the lives of […]
By Shahnaz Bashir In the turn of events after the killing of young rebel commander Burhan Wani in the summer of 2016, many Indian film stars, musicians, singers, cricketers, intellectuals and journalists have brazenly called for ruthless response to Kashmiris protesting for their right to self-determination. To name a few: Virender Sehwag, Gautam Ghambir, Anupam […]
By Inam ul Rehman Having an advantage of hindsight to assess things is a blessing. The agitation of 2016 came up with various outcomes, but some offshoots were already taking roots, and a few of them fructified after the year ended. To assess 2016, I will go for a nonlinear narrative to sum up how […]
By F.Faheem For a long time studying crowds and crowd behaviour remained mainstay of the discipline of psychology. Some of the well-known scholars like Gastave Le Bon and McDdougall used the term ‘crowd’ to describe a picture of hostile mass politics. Despite giving a pathological description of crowds, Le Bon established crowd and crowd behaviour […]
By Arshie Zuhar The Kashmiri struggle for right to self-determination had never been so widely debated and discussed as it’s after 8 July 2016. 8 July is the New Year in the resistance calendar of Kashmir. That day Burhan Wani did not die; he was born. Born as the face of Kashmir, a real ‘naya’ […]
By Ajaz Ahmed The year 2016 ushered in a new vortex of death and destruction in Kashmir. It was a new edition of a recurring tragedy that effectively superseded the previous editions. But the contents of this new edition remained the same: thwarted aspirations of a subjugated people, protests followed by brutal repression and killings, […]
By Murtaza Shibli The death of Burhan Wani in July 2016, that provoked Kashmiris into a mass rebellion, severely challenged the narratives of status quo as advanced by India and Pakistan. The events that followed also nullified the respective policy prescriptions of the two countries that had been put in place for the management of […]
By Seema Kazi Kashmir’s 2016 uprising must be placed within the wider context of the persistent rebellions for freedom and justice in Kashmir that, as Christopher Sneddon reminds us in his important book, began to unfold much before the post-1947 India-Pakistan hostilities over Kashmir. The fact that Kashmiris themselves initiated rebellion against a repressive, feudal […]
By Sheikh Qayoom What would the fate of a human being be if his right hand discards an action taken by the left hand? No laurels for reaching the right conclusion—such a human being would be doomed for life. And, what be the fate of a society, an organisation and a political system where the […]