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Kashmir’s women in radio broadcasting
By Saba Firdous Despite living under hardships in Kashmir- which is engulfed in the conflict for decades now, women have made their name in the radio. Initially, it was difficult for any girl or woman to enter any media channel. They were looked down upon as inferiors due to which very few females came forward [...]
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A Kashmiri Woman replies to CPA
By Asima Nazki This is about the recent “Kashmiri Women Solidarity” drama in Delhi by Center for Policy Analysis (CPA) group. To the conveners with their politically motivated decontextualized recommendations that became public last week.Let me tell you, this is no service to Kashmir and its ailments. As a Kashmiri woman I am seething. This [...]
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Let The Nightingales Sing
She places her radio on the window sill, it falls and she picks it up, stares at it but she feels disturbed. Reason? The doorbell. Rath haz doud (take the milk), the milkman beckons her. Humming a tune, she goes to the door. She has had a dream…a dream of white and black piano keys. [...]
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Shazia’s Father Fights For Justice
A day before Eid-ul-Azha, Shazia Majeed, 28, was found hanging to a ceiling fan in her house. She died in mysterious circumstances. She was a mother of a three year old girl. She had disputes with her husband, Javaid Ahmad Wani, ever since they got married. Shazia, the only daughter and sister of her two [...]
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A Mother, Sister And Wife —Salute To Your Courage
Text by Rifat Mohiudin | Photos by Zuhaib Muhammad For decades, Kashmir has been a conflict region. The conflict has left irreparable loss in everything; women have too faced the worst. They are at the receiving end, directly or indirectly. The situations in the Valley caused disruptions in their education, job opportunities and overall development. [...]
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“Azaadi has to begin at our homes”
Kashmir’s women have been called the steel magnolias, the bravest in the world. Brave for having taken every suffering, endured pain and stood up in the height of odds. They have tolerated being widowed, left with no son, ravaged off their chastity and left alone in conditions, which are unbearable for others. But what have [...]
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The Spinning Wheel
Spinning wheel in Kashmir is an old practice whereby women would remain indoors and earn meagre amount to sustain livelihood. Over the years, this form of labour has declined due to increase in prices of raw wool. Those in the practice say the prices of Pashmina yarn is still the same as was decades back; [...]
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Story on Kashmiri Women’s Problems
Nobody said marriage was a cake-walk, but for some non-Kashmiri women who are married to locals here, it has been a hard life. Doctors say some of these women are walking into their clinics and grappling with multiple problems – physical, emotional and psychological. The number of non-Kashmiri women, who have been wheeled into emergency [...]
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