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Interview | Parvaiz Bukhari, by David Barsamian
Parvaiz Bukhari is an independent Kashmir-based journalist whose articles appear in major South Asian newspapers, journals and magazines. He was interviewed by David Barsamian in which he talks about Kashmir and many other related issues. Give a sense of what life is like in Kashmir, day-to-day interactions that average Kashmiris would have with one of [...]
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Interview | Angana Chatterji, by David Barsamian
Interviewed by David Barsamian San Francisco: Among the many issues plaguing South Asia none is as violent and deeply contested as Kashmir. The major unresolved issue of the disastrous British partition of India in 1947, Kashmir has been the site of wars and the threat of wars, and probably the world’s longest and most extensive [...]
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Pakistan: A Journalist’s View
Pakistani Journalist, Beena Sarwar interviewed by David Barsamian. Cambridge, MA 18 January 2012 Beena Sarwar is an independent Pakistani journalist and documentary filmmaker. She is the Pakistan editor of Aman ki Asha (www.amankiasha.com), a joint initiative of “The News” in Pakistan and “The Times of India.” She was a producer for GEO TV, the largest [...]
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I am writing my biography: Yasin Malik
Eleventh February is remembered as Maqbool Butt’s death anniversary. Every year demonstrations are held in many parts of world. His followers and the people of Kashmir demand the return of his remains from Tihar Jail, where he is buried, to Kashmir. Kashmiri groups, on both sides of the dreaded line of control and all over [...]
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Life of a journalist in Kashmir, tells Yusuf Jameel
A parcel bomb blast in Srinagar office of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) changed the life of its then correspondent, Yusuf Jameel. He still sits in the same office but never dares to sit in the same room where he lost his friend in the blast. Jameel was born in 1958, started his career as [...]
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Women On Resolution, Government and Future
Kashmiri woman has long been portrayed as a mute spectator of all that has happened and is happening. Considered to be bystanders in the politics of Kashmir, these women have hardly been heard. Their views and choices have long been neglected by those who claim to cover Kashmir. The only time Kashmiri woman get chance [...]
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Raiding My Studio Was Like Cutting My Throat: MC Kash
The revolutionary rapper from Kashmir, Roushan Illahi aka MC Kash who sings rap songs, mostly related to Kashmir conflict, says, “I took up to something that I couldn’t just leave on the shelf. I couldn’t let my feelings rot. I had to record no matter what. So, they won’t let me record? It’s cool. I [...]
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Chakkri: A Melodic Folk Song
In an interview with Fazil Qayoom, Sheikh Fayaz – one of the pioneers of Valley’s Chakkri singers, talks about this traditional melodic folk song of Kashmir and also makes some proposals for regaining the lost glory of the Chakkri. FQ: What makes the Chakkri distinct from the other forms of Kashmiri music? SF: The Chakkri [...]
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“Complete Apathy On The Part Of Indian Civil Society”
By Fahad Shah & Sheikh Saleem He is a human rights lawyer and a civil rights activist. He graduated in Science from Srinagar in the year 1972 and then got his LLB degree at the Law College Aligarh Muslim University in 1975. Imroz joined the Jammu and Kashmir High Court as a lawyer in 1978. [...]
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“Report Only First Step, Prosecution Of Suspects A Must”
By Heena Kausar Recently, the Jammu and Kashmir State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) released a report Inquiry Report of Unmarked Graves in North Kashmir wherein they have confirmed presence of 2156 unidentified graves at 38 sites in North Kashmir. On 16 September 2011, the SHRC directed that the bodies should be identified using all available [...]
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“Why unpack? We will return soon”
Interviewed by Heena Kausar For a Kashmiri Pandit life changed when the armed rebellion started in Kashmir Valley in late 80s. The community migrated to Jammu – outside Kashmir Valley in a matter of few days. Some of them settled in different parts of India and some left India to live in other countries. [...]
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Young Novelist Of Kashmir
Interviewed by Fahad Shah On June 9, this year a local newspaper here came up with a story “Palhallan teenage girl turns novelist”. The girl is from Palhallan, Pattan— 17 miles from Srinagar. Sixteen year old Ruqaiya Shabir Tantray is a Kashmiri, now settled in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. She published her first novel “Magical Moonbeams” in [...]
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