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Exclusive | David Barsamian on Journalism in Kashmir

For obvious reasons freedom of the press in Kashmir is limited and constrained. Military occupation with its attendant curfews, roadblocks, checkpoints, searches, surveillance, wiretapping of calls and emails, and state-sponsored violence from custodial deaths and extrajudicial killings to torture and disappearances, produce immense pain and suffering among Kashmiris. Intimidation and fear are widespread. That is [...]

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A Perspective On Journalism and Kashmir

One forms a perspective based on two things: what one gets to see, and one’s own sense of reasonability, sensibility and logic. Quite often, in the case of many, it is the lack of both. The ideas and opinions I hold of Kashmir today are based on what I have seen, mostly from afar, and [...]

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Eleven Killings in Kashmir Journalism

Lassa Kaul Director, Doordarshan Date: February 13, 1990, Location: Srinagar Kaul was allegedly killed by militants on his way home. The then Governor Jagmohan explained the murder on the grounds that Kaul had incurred the wrath of the “terrorists” by broadcasting programs, which the militants thought were “un-Islamic”. Mohammed Shaban Vakil Editor, Al-Safa Date: April [...]

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Journalism in Kashmir

Journalism is an art in itself moreover in Kashmir its more than an art as here we are living in the world’s biggest militarized and disputed territory. No one can deny that here in Kashmir the journalist fraternity has lot to bear and pay for their professional duties. They are not free to write or [...]

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