Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
In denial mode
NAWAZ GUL QANUNGO
It was August 15, 2009. The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was making his sixth Independence Day speech from the Red Fort, as thousands including leaders from around the world were watching on. He would touch many subjects. As far as Kashmir was concerned, he had indeed been fortunate.
It was August 15, 2009. The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was making his sixth Independence Day speech from the Red Fort, as thousands including leaders from around the world were watching on. He would touch many subjects. As far as Kashmir was concerned, he had indeed been fortunate.
Youth storm
SYED FAISAL QADRI
Over the last three months the valley has been witnessing an extension of a decades-long struggle started by our elders which also includes a period of armed resistance.
Over the last three months the valley has been witnessing an extension of a decades-long struggle started by our elders which also includes a period of armed resistance.
NATIVE NARRATIVE
A lot has written on the current Kashmir unrest by publications across the globe. Kashmir Life invites the primary stake holders Kashmiri people –...
Letter from the editor
During the last three months a widely popular agitation has seen almost all of Kashmir either on the streets protesting and demanding Azadi or...
Crisis and fallout
DR OMAR AKHTAR
The present crisis is another chapter in the struggle for freedom, justice and permanent peace in Kashmir, by the Kashmiris, against rulers appointed from powers that be elsewhere. The difference this time is that it is mostly spontaneous, unsponsored, unarmed, and long-lasting. Other times, the struggle has been manipulated by other agencies, from within and outside, for their own gains. This time, the Kashmiri on the street is firmly in his own element, and wishes to be heard, and is protesting for a final solution.
The present crisis is another chapter in the struggle for freedom, justice and permanent peace in Kashmir, by the Kashmiris, against rulers appointed from powers that be elsewhere. The difference this time is that it is mostly spontaneous, unsponsored, unarmed, and long-lasting. Other times, the struggle has been manipulated by other agencies, from within and outside, for their own gains. This time, the Kashmiri on the street is firmly in his own element, and wishes to be heard, and is protesting for a final solution.
How much bloodshed
MUHAMMAD AHSEEM
As if the trauma and pain which the Kashmiri society suffered over the killing of 65 unarmed people was not enough that four more lives had to be annihilated, to strangulate the Kashmiri cry for freedom. Nothing except human blood seems to satiate the passion of trigger happy police and CRPF personnel, ready to prowl upon the hapless youth of Kashmir and seemingly no power on earth is able to deter these from slaughtering the innocent, even after the country’s top executive shows some concern in the highest temple of Indian democracy at Delhi.
As if the trauma and pain which the Kashmiri society suffered over the killing of 65 unarmed people was not enough that four more lives had to be annihilated, to strangulate the Kashmiri cry for freedom. Nothing except human blood seems to satiate the passion of trigger happy police and CRPF personnel, ready to prowl upon the hapless youth of Kashmir and seemingly no power on earth is able to deter these from slaughtering the innocent, even after the country’s top executive shows some concern in the highest temple of Indian democracy at Delhi.
Critical crossroads
TARIQUE A BHAT
Kashmir is at a major moment of flux, the existing political order stands humiliated, the peace and tranquility assumptions of the last twenty years are in tatters. Put into the perspective of history, dwindling legitimacy is a continuing trend. Both Jammu & Kashmir and New Delhi stand at the crossroads. The rhetoric is becoming shriller.
Kashmir is at a major moment of flux, the existing political order stands humiliated, the peace and tranquility assumptions of the last twenty years are in tatters. Put into the perspective of history, dwindling legitimacy is a continuing trend. Both Jammu & Kashmir and New Delhi stand at the crossroads. The rhetoric is becoming shriller.
Women’s Role in 2010 Uprising
DR BASHIR A DABLA
A sociological view
The fact needs no reiteration that women’s participation in the on-going uprising for ‘Azaadi’ stands equal and total. This has contributed to the total social support to the present demonstrations. This phenomenon has not occurred without any reason or factor.
A sociological view
The fact needs no reiteration that women’s participation in the on-going uprising for ‘Azaadi’ stands equal and total. This has contributed to the total social support to the present demonstrations. This phenomenon has not occurred without any reason or factor.
From ‘Normalcy’ to Freedom
ZEESHAN PANDITH
The present crisis shattered the illusion of peace and prosperity in the Valley. Manifest in the cunning and deadly blanket word, ‘normalcy,’ this illusion made it easier for many elements, over the years, to create divisions among Kashmiris especially on the issue of independence versus integration. What does normalcy mean in Kashmir?
The present crisis shattered the illusion of peace and prosperity in the Valley. Manifest in the cunning and deadly blanket word, ‘normalcy,’ this illusion made it easier for many elements, over the years, to create divisions among Kashmiris especially on the issue of independence versus integration. What does normalcy mean in Kashmir?
Transitory Phase Economics For Kashmir
DR MUBEEN SHAH
I am writing this article based on the situation which has developed in the last three months and keeping in view the direction Kashmir is taking .This all started with a paradigm shift during the Amaranth crisis where in the whole movement got converted into a non-violent one.
I am writing this article based on the situation which has developed in the last three months and keeping in view the direction Kashmir is taking .This all started with a paradigm shift during the Amaranth crisis where in the whole movement got converted into a non-violent one.
Video puts police in spot
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No excuse here
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Act, if you mean business
Strikes and curfews are not new to Kashmir, especially in the last twenty years. Never ever, however, has Kashmir remained closed for three months...
Recreating terror
Muhammad AhseemThe disquieting revelations about the government approaching former dreaded Ikhwani renegades Qasim Khaar and Padam Shri Mumma Kanna for help to curb the...
Compounding suffering
Almost all major charities in Kashmir, working for orphans, widows and other poor, are facing a hard time as they are not receiving enough...
