Articles
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Modi’s Bihar Campaign Trades Jobs for Jingoism
As Bihar heads toward its legislative assembly elections on November 6 and 11, with results expected on November 14, the state is not witnessing a…
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Baring Francesca Orsini is an insult to knowledge itself
The morning after the festival of lights, Diwali, came news of darkness. Francesca Orsini, a renowned scholar of Hindi, was turned back from Delhi Airport…
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Silence in the valley: The brutal repression of Kashmiri writers
Mir Aiyaz In a deserted lane in one of the countryside villages in a frontier district, Kupwara, a once well-known writer is now living a…
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History’s Black Chapter: The Truth Behind India’s Landing in Kashmir
On certain dates, history does not only write it down on paper, but it carves into the hearts of nations. 27 Oct, 1947, is…
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October 27: The Day Kashmir Lost Its Freedom
They say some dates never fade; they burn themselves into the conscience of nations. For Kashmir, that date is October 27, 1947; a day that…
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Kashmir Black Day: A Struggle Against Occupation and Unfinished Promise of Self-Determination
On 27 October each year, Kashmiris, Pakistanis and people around the world observe Kashmir Black Day, the sad anniversary of the forcible occupation of…
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Kashmir’s Black Day: From Accession to Abrogation, the Struggle Lives On
October 27 is remembered as a Black Day in the history of Jammu and Kashmir. It was on this day in 1947 that Indian troops…
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The Cruel Irony of India’s Claim to Care for Kashmir
New Delhi’s recent public posture as a “friend of Kashmiris” is grotesquely at odds with the lived reality under its administration of Indian Illegally Occupied…
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Remembering Shaheed Advocate Abdul Qadir Sailani: A Life Committed to Justice
Today marks the martyrdom anniversary of Shaheed Advocate Abdul Qadir Sailani, a senior Kashmiri lawyer who was killed in Soura in 1995. He is…
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Black Day: A Memory That Refuses to Fade
27 October 1947 is not just a date on the calendar,it is a Black Day for the people of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir…