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The Death Meadows Of Kashmir Valley

By Sajad Rasool: The Army doesn't like to clean up the table after it eats. But it is always quick to wash its hands. In the beginning it was a meadow. An open grassy expanse surrounded by snow-tipped hills. Brooks and springs ran down

Understanding Kashmir

How To Integrate Kashmir With India [Part 1: Introduction]

By Karmanye Thadani: It is indeed quite obvious that allowing Kashmir to secede is not an option that India can exercise (I have elucidated on this in a piece I had written). On this very portal, I had written a series of five articles, which

Travel

Around Cultures: Understanding Mannerisms In India

By R. Anupam Pillai: I still remember I was in my middle school when I was curious to know why and how people belonging to different places behave differently? So, finally after waiting for a long time, my curiosity was satiated in the language class

Society

JAMMU: The Lost Land, Wasted… And No More?

By Mahima Raina: I don’t know where Jammu is when we talk about Jammu and Kashmir. When that happens, it makes me very sad and I wonder, is it no more ? I spend a considerable time in making this point to people I meet outside of

Specials

Lessons From Egypt For Kashmir

By Karmanye Thadani: I had visited Egypt in 2008 with my parents, basically for an international conference on cyber law in Cairo where I was presenting a research paper on cyber terrorism, and an Arab gentleman presenting a paper on the same theme made it a

Politics

An Open Letter To The ‘Nationalists’ Protesting The J&K Interlocutors Report

By Swathi Anantha: Dear Neglectful Nationalist You blame America for trying to be the big brother for the rest of the world and here you are trying to play big brother to J&K. Who are you or the Pakistanis to be playing tug of war

Society

An Innocuous Act Of Performance Questions The Meaning Of Freedom For Kashmir

By Raju Moza: Recently one incident took place in the campus of Kashmir University, in the state of Jammu & Kashmir, which neither was covered in mainstream media nor on new media .Typically most of the events happening in Kashmir are vociferously discussed on social

Travel

Lesser Known Cuisines Of India: The Kashmiri Cuisine

By Sukrati Rastogi: The great Mughal emperor Jehangir had fondly repeated what Amir Khusro had said - if there is heaven on earth it is here in Kashmir. Its beauty has the power to mesmerize anyone but there is something truly unique that adds to

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The Solution Moderates in the Valley Suggest [Part 5 of 'A Fresh Wave of Thinking in the Kashmir Valley' Series]

By Karmanye Thadani: This brings us to the moderate Hurriyat leader Prof. Abdul Gani Bhat’s statement that the implementation of UN resolutions mandating a plebiscite is no longer practical, and that the separatists must modify their plank by accepting India as their country and should