Abdul Azeem* life has become a dirge, torn image, I’ve become alike silence has engulfed my life so, entangled in melancholy decade passed, as if a century I’ve gone through, with your memories, still waiting for you, vividly I remember those days, when you used to kiss my forehead you … Read more →
What India does and what Kashmiris do?
Shafkat Raina Recently an unfortunate incident happened in Chandigarh, a union territory of India where a doctor refused to treat a Kashmiri patient citing the reason of stone pelting on Indian troops in Kashmir. In an another shocker, a threat was given to the students of Kashmir in the state … Read more →
A festival inside four walls
On the day of Eid-ul-Fitr, Ahmed Bin Qasim pens a poem for his incarcerated father and mother. Ahmed is the youngest son of Asiya Andrabi the chief of Dukhtaran-e-Millat who is serving a latest sentence under the draconian Public Safety Act, and Dr. Qasim Faktoo who is in jail since 1992. I could hear … Read more →
My brief meeting with Parveena Ahangar
A young student pens his first meeting with his role model Parveena Ahangar, chairperson of Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) Sheikh Saqib The first thing I saw was her hand. Dainty, holding the stick of a placard which said,” where are our dear ones?” Then more of her emerged … Read more →
Behold, I Shine: Narratives of Kashmir’s Women and Children
Freny Manecksha Book Excerpt: Chapter “I Can Save Myself: Dissent and Feminism in a New Millenium” The challenging male diktats on morality is extended to conversations around religion. In a lengthy conversation, Essar remarked how men simply assume they are the thekedars of what is right or wrong and she was … Read more →
A letter from the massacre
Bilal Handoo Inside her home overlooking the Chenab, the story started on a sad note. Dusk had long dimmed Doda town when she showed a bundle of nerves before narration. Everything had quietened. In that hush hour, she started with a sweater that her father wanted her young seamstress mother … Read more →
A Historical Overview of Kashmiri Women in Politics & Resistance
Dr Shazia Malik The women of Kashmir played a conspicuous role in the struggle against the Dogra rule. In a meeting at Khanqa-he-Maula, one Abdul Qadeer, a non-Kashmiri Muslim who was in Srinagar came on the stage and said “we do not have guns, but we have plenty of stones … Read more →
Kashmir’s Shimla Solidarity circa 1931
Khalid Bashir Ahmed The wounds of tyranny had been festering for long. The pent-up resentment against a highly repressive and hated regime that made no distinction between shooting a game bird and its subjects was only waiting to burst. The killing of 21 unarmed civilians on July 13 1931, sent … Read more →
History of Armed Struggles in Kashmir
Author Rao Farman Ali Reviewer Arshi Javed Publisher Jay Kay Books, Kashmir On 8 July – just about a month from now – it will be a year since the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Muzaffar Wani, an event which plunged the Valley into one of its worst phases … Read more →
Cheeks Red Red
Safiya Mehraj Read this very interesting article to provide context to this drawing made by Safiya Mehraj. Follow link: http://withkashmir.org/2017/06/05/red-cheek-kashmiris-respond-savage-ways/
The Day of Sabzar’s Funeral
Sheikh Saqib On an exceptionally hot Saturday morning, I along with my friends was riding to a village, to explore the destined place and trek its mountains. We stopped a few kilometers back and bought some junk food and bottles of soft drink and mineral water. Everyone was excited about … Read more →
How riots changed J&K politics
The article first appeared on Kashmir Life Journalist Ved Bhasin has completed six decades in active journalism, but the editor of Kashmir Times has had an equal proximity to politics. Politics, in fact, was his first love, that eventually gave way to journalism. He has been close to players that mattered … Read more →
The Patriot, Ashfaq Majeed Wani
On the martyrdom anniversary of Ashfaq Majeed Wani, Salman Shah writes how Ashfaq became the inspiration to the youth of his time. When Ashfaq returned from Pakistan, he was greeted with flower petals, slogans and “Wanwun” in the Kashmir’s capital, Srinagar. Women and Men sat along roadside to get a … Read more →
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