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Explosion of a lava building up in Kashmir: Gautam Navlakha
By News Desk | Kupwara, Kashmir Stating that the prevailing peace in Kashmir valley is superficial in nature, renowned human rights and civil liberties activist, Gautam Navlakha today cautioned the state and central government against “explosion of a lava building up in Kashmir.” “Apparently everything seems normal as traffic is plying and schools are open [...]
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Remembering Gaw Kadal Massacre, Jan 21, 1990
It has been more than twenty years of the gateway to our road of the massacres. It was this day, twenty three years ago,
ashvin kumar \ film \ films on kashmir \ Inshallah Kashmir: Living Terror \ Kashmir
Inshallah Kashmir: Living Terror – Preview, the first seven minutes
Text by Ashvin Kumar The full film will be uploaded on India’s Republic Day, 26th January, 2012. This is the first seven minutes of Oscar® nominated director Ashvin Kumar’s new film “Inshallah, Kashmir: Living Terror”. This time, we will bypass the Indian censor board releasing the full-film online and free-of-charge for 24 hours at [...]
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Shehan Karunatilaka awarded the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2012
Jaipur, January 21, 2012: The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2012 was awarded to Singapore based Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka for his book Chinaman (Random House, India), a novel that explores cricket as a metaphor to uncover a lost life and a lost history. Chinaman skilfully uses sport and the notion of fair [...]
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Landslides- II
By Afroz Ahmad Shah The famous Portuguese Bend landslide in the summer of 1956, when people noticed that the ground beneath them had begun to move, remind us of the potential of such forces to move the ground (Figure, a). It is estimated that a 105-hectare (260-acre) section of the slope was breaking free at [...]
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Landslides- I
By Afroz Ahmad Shah Natural disasters like earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, wildfires, cyclones, droughts, floods etc. continuously pose constant threats to our young, 10,000-years-old, civilization. The devastations of Sumatra and Thai coasts in 2004, of Kashmir and New Orleans in 2005, of southwest Java in 2006, of Sumatra again in 2007, western Sichuan and Myanmar in [...]
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Kashmir’s Unmarked Graves; UN Mediation
By Huma Sheikh In August 2011, the unmarked graves atrocity came to light in Kashmir after the Jammu & Kashmir Human Rights Commission confirmed that more than two thousand bodies were buried in those graves in several districts of the Valley. The commission said many of the dead were civilians who had disappeared over the [...]
Letter to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah
Dear Sir, I would like to draw your attention to a gross misuse of law and public office by state officials in the Custodian and Police department that has resulted in the forced homelessness of an elderly couple. This matter is now currently sub judiciary but I have highlighted those aspects of the problem that [...]
earth science \ geoscience \ Kashmir
Earth’s Internal Structure-II
By Afroz Ahmad Shah As I have discussed in my previous article, that through the vast amount of evidences obtained from the earthquakes waves, meteorites, which fall on Earth, magnetic fields, some rare exposures of the deeper section of the Earth’s layers, and other physiochemical properties demonstrate that Earth is made up of three major [...]
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JKCCS Report: Human Rights Review – Jammu and Kashmir in 2011
This is a report released by the JAMMU AND KASHMIR COALITION OF CIVIL SOCIETY, the Bund, Amira Kadal, Srinagar 190001, (www.jkccs.net) TOTAL KILLINGS Year 2011 has just passed, and many have declared this year, a peaceful year in Jammu and Kashmir. Ofcourse assertions of peace by various quarters are relative. Enforced silence cannot be construed as peace. [...]
JKLF \ Kashmir \ yasin malik
Yasin Malik: US government must show lenient way towards Fai
Srinagar, December 31: Separatist leaders and members of civil society today termed Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai as ‘man of peace’ and the ‘ambassador of oppressed people of Kashmir.’ A day long seminar titled ‘Diplomatic Front of Movement and Dr G N Fai’ was organized by Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front to commemorate 18th death anniversary [...]
kashmiri rapper \ mc kash \ roushan illahi
Why We Rebels (with Lyrics) by MC Kash
The Kashmir walla brings you the Kashmir’s revolutionary rapper, MC Kash’s latest song “Why We Rebels” with Lyrics. The song has a warning, “Parental discretion is advised.” Lyrics Hook: They gave us blood and hate Then wondered why we all are rebels In the Land of Saints each man raised is called a rebel Verse1: [...]
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