Family and friends of Bashir Ahmad Khan, whose death on the morning of July 1 sparked anger across Kashmir and raised several questions as to what led to his killing, recollect his last moments and their fond memories with him. Written by Younis Ahmad and Bilal Ahmad. The wailing of women resumed after the completion of […]
A documentation of the custodial deaths during lockdown that also looks for the answer to some such questions around the class nature, caste nature and religious nature of such deaths. This is the third part of the Groundxero report. The Thoothukudi murders have once again drawn our attention to custodial and other forms of violence […]
It is an understatement that the notions of home for the Indian elite, the home-quarantined middle class, the activists under fabricated cases in jails, the migrant workers on the road and the Kashmiris suffering the state oppression for decades are not the same. The Indian state has been systematically denying the Kashmiris every right to claiming […]
The Jammu and Kashmir police booked photojournalist Masrat Zahra under the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act on Monday for posting her work on facebook which exposes the brutality of the Indian state in occupied Kashmir. Masrat Zahra is one of the few female photojournalists in Kashmir who are at the forefront of the conflict, […]
With ‘normalcy’ slowly limping back to Kashmir after around seven long months, the ghosts of what has been happening and what recently happened in Kashmir will continue to haunt the women of Kashmir. The women here not only deal with the societal issues, but also get an ever-rising share of grief due to the conflict, […]
Twenty-nine years have passed since the residents of the twin villages of the Kupwara district in Kashmir — Kunan and Poshpora — were subjected to mass rape and torture within the walls of their own homes by the Indian armed forces. With no substantial development in their entreaty for justice against their alleged rape and […]
কেটে গেছে ২৯ বছর। কাশ্মীরের কুনান পোষপরা-য় ভারতীয় সেনার হাতে ধর্ষিত নারীদের অপমানের ক্ষত শোকায়নি। একটি গ্রাউন্ডজিরো প্রতিবেদন। ২৩শে ফেব্রুয়ারি তারিখটি ভারতের কাছে দেশ হিসাবে লজ্জার। এখনও সেই লজ্জায় মাথা নীচু থাকা উচিৎ। অবশ্য পুরুষতান্ত্রিক যে রাষ্ট্র তার শোষন, নিপীড়নের হাতিয়ার হিসাবে বারেবারেই ধর্ষণ ও নির্মম অত্যাচারকেই বেছে নেয়, তার সরকারের চেহারা বদলালেও চরিত্র […]
January 21, 2020 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the GawKadal Massacre in Srinagar, Kashmir, when more than 50 persons were killed, and about 200 were injured, as the CRPF opened fire on a group of peaceful protestors. Some, eye-witness accounts say, people jumped into the river Jhelum to save themselves from the firing. It was […]
Some months ago ‘Leftword’ published an important book titled ‘The Dirty War in Kashmir’, written by late Kashmiri journalist, Shujat Bukhari. The book is a collection of his reports on Kashmir published in ‘Frontline’ from May 2017, up to his assassination in June 2018. Although the book came out before the abrogation of Article […]
The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh invited 40 Kashmiri students from Aligarh Muslim University, as part of an initiative to purportedly create awareness about the Centre’s decision to remove Article 370 and address any misconceptions. Since the Abrogation of Article 370 Kashmir has been under complete lockdown. Kashmiris staying in India are unable to contact […]
In a 2-part series, Bilal Majid writes about the politics around Article 370, and the Hindutva design of capturing Kashmir. In this part, the author discusses the history of Hindutva vis-a-vis Kashmir as a whole. The first part dealt with the politics around Article 370 and can be read here. Lies, deception, distortions, and […]
In a 2-part series, Bilal Majid writes about the politics around Article 370, and the Hindutva design of capturing Kashmir. This first part deals with the politics around Article 370. In a subsequent account, the author goes into the history of Hindutva vis-a-vis Kashmir as a whole. William James (1842-1910) once remarked, “Whenever you’re […]
Yesterday, several health activists, practitioners, networks, academics and other individuals issued an open statement on health crisis currently in Kashmir, following abrogation of Article 370, and the clamp down on transport and all means of communications. “The purpose of this statement is to highlight the health situation and to demand the immediate restoration of […]
“The siege is a waiting period Waiting on the tilted ladder In the middle of the storm” -Mahmoud Darwish কাশ্মীর উপত্যকায় রাষ্ট্র-প্রবর্তিত গণ-শ্বাসরোধী স্তব্ধতাকে স্বাভাবিক অবস্থা বলে ভুয়ো প্রচার করে চলেছে সংবাদমাধ্যম। কাশ্মীরের মানুষ গলা চড়িয়ে যন্ত্রণায় আর্তনাদ করে উঠতে চায়। এক দমবন্ধ করা ভয়ে তারা নিশ্চুপ। সারা কাশ্মীর যেন এক তীব্র শোকের […]
“The truth is, our conversations, our efforts to create solidarity, and even our protests, today, exist in enclosures. The ones we have created, over the years. The ones in whose construction we have been complicit in, over the years. It is up to us to try and break them,” writes Pinki Saha. There are […]