Srinagar: A new book on Kashmir titled Resisting Occupation in Kashmir has been released in America. The book analyses the social and legal logic of “India’s occupation of Kashmir in relation to colonialism, militarization, power, democracy, and sovereignty,” according to its publisher University of Pennsylvania Press. “It also traces how Kashmiri youth are drawing on […]
Five years after Afzal Guru’s hanging in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail, Kashmir Narrator gathers previously unpublished details about his life and events leading to his execution By Bilal Handoo At the dawn of 9 February 2013, as he was escorted out of his cell in the ‘high-risk’ ward of Tihar’s jail 3, Mohammad Afzal Guru knew […]
As the rocking events of the JNU story move out of the news cycle, a stream of sub textual themes is slowly making itself felt. The way the Indian government dealt with slogan-raising students makes a bitter commentary on the Indian state. The slogans may have been unacceptable to most Indians, but they were just […]