Kashmir
War, Terror and Hate
Pranati Mehra
Journalist Adrian Levy’s book Deception was about the West’s role in Al Qaida’s birth and Pakistan’s duplicity. The Meadow was about a kidnapping in Kashmir. Now he plans one on 26/11. An interview
The Eternal Autumn of Hope and Waiting
A Kashmiri’s debut film captures the oppressive atmosphere of a militarised state
The People in Their Heads
A father tormented by visions of his dead son, a boy battling dreams of azaadi and football, soldiers fighting their inner demons... Djinns of Eidgah is a deeply disturbing play on Kashmir
The Conspiracy of Gunshots
Avtar Singh’s death may mean that some of Kashmir’s gory secrets go unexposed
A First Timer in Kashmir
Where a houseboat is not a houseboat and everything else is not always what it seems
Sorry, Kashmir Is Happy
Why is it obscene to accept that a historically wounded people are ready to move on?
The Right Thing to Do
Even during Kashmir’s worst years of insurgency, says Ghulam Mohammad Malik, a retired Muslim teacher who has been protecting a temple in Srinagar for over a decade now, no one ever raised an eyebrow at his presence there
AFSPA as Magic Wand
Will revoking this Act in Kashmir change things drastically? Or does the problem lie elsewhere?
The Right to Disagree
What hope does a free exchange of ideas have in a litfest whose organisers themselves won’t stomach dissent?
The Autumn of Hypocrisy
Those opposed to Srinagar’s Harud litfest have only strengthened radical voices in Kashmir. In the name of a ‘cause’, they have silenced those whose stories must be told
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