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India beefs up security in Kashmir, ahead of Jan 26
Text by Muheet ul Islam, Photographs by Shahid Tantray Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir The security apparatus in the Indian-controlled Kashmir has been beefed up and the authorities sounded caution for any untoward incident, two days ahead of Indian Republic day on Jan. 26. The local policemen and troopers of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were seen [...]
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In Pictures: Jaipur Literature Festival 2013
On Jan. 24, 2012, the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival started, with 285 speakers expected to speak in the five day long South-Asia’s major literary event. Muhabit ul Haq brings some of the moments of the day one.
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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,
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The beheading of Rahim Chhaan and two others
By Arif Ayaz Parrey The history of ideas usually credits the discourse that it analyses with coherence. If it happens to notice an irregularity in the use of words, several incompatible propositions, a set of meanings that do not adjust to one another, concepts that cannot be systematized together, then it regards it as its [...]
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JKLF’s ceasefire in 1994 was brokered by US, UK: Yasin Malik
The Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik, today said that the 1994 unilateral ceasefire
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My patriarchy better than yours!
By Amrita Ghosh “We are exhorted to be women, remain women, become women” – Simone de Beauvoir, (The Second Sex, xix) To my women readers: can we think of a time and space when we have not thought of ourselves as a woman, and the cultural discourse it has been embedded with? Is it really [...]
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Why is the old-man begging?
By Mukhtiyar Ahmad Seventy-year-old, Ghulam Mohammed, wears a customary shabby blue cap with white colour lining. His green eyes seem to be searching for someone…someone who would be his respite, at last. He wears a traditional pheranwith one side folded on his shoulder that makes his body look slightly bent, one hand in the pocket [...]
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“Mother India ki jai”
By Ibreez Ajaz The industry in Kashmir is booming. Sales have thrived for one sector in particular – cloth. More specifically, cotton. Cotton for wounds, cotton for kahfans, and cotton for handkerchiefs. Cotton for the factories, for textiles – millions of cogs turning in rhythm to gunfire, increasing proportionately with each blast. The looms creak [...]
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More ‘unmarked’ graves found in Kashmir; total 6277+
In a latest addition to the thousands of unmarked graves exposed in Kashmir, Voice of Victims- a non-political organization has claimed that there are more than 60 unmarked graves in Srinagar and Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir- a disputed region on India and Pakistan border. The group has started its survey from Chadoora tehsil [...]
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Girls, speak up
By Anusha Soni One day enraged with suffocation and suffering Betwixt my tradition and ambitions I looked for the evil that was creating darkness. I desperately looked out of the window, screamed and squealed Challenged the devil to come and face me. When no one turned up, I sat down, lost and disappointed Looking [...]
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Pictures: Indian forces shot at civilians; 15 injured
After a joint team of Jammu and Kashmir Police, CRPF and Army, on December 28, started an encounter in the Bubgam village of Pulwama district (in Kashmir) and claimed killing of the two local militants of the Lashkar-e-Toiba outfit, they opened indiscriminate firing on the protesters too, as per the locals, which resulted in injuring [...]
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The misdirected debate on rape in India
By Anusha Soni The streets of the capital fume with fury and desperation. Thousands of people gather at India Gate, Rashtrapati Bhavan, Jantar Mantar and other nook and corners of the country to express their disgust and condemnation to the incident. I struggled to find an adjective to be added before the word ‘incident’ in [...]
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