Crisis and fallout
The present crisis is another chapter in the struggle for freedom, justice and permanent peace in Kashmir, by the Kashmiris, against rulers appointed from powers that be elsewhere. The difference this time is that it is mostly spontaneous, unsponsored, unarmed, and long-lasting. Other times, the struggle has been manipulated by other agencies, from within and outside, for their own gains. This time, the Kashmiri on the street is firmly in his own element, and wishes to be heard, and is protesting for a final solution.
How much bloodshed
As if the trauma and pain which the Kashmiri society suffered over the killing of 65 unarmed people was not enough that four more lives had to be annihilated, to strangulate the Kashmiri cry for freedom. Nothing except human blood seems to satiate the passion of trigger happy police and CRPF personnel, ready to prowl upon the hapless youth of Kashmir and seemingly no power on earth is able to deter these from slaughtering the innocent, even after the country’s top executive shows some concern in the highest temple of Indian democracy at Delhi.
Critical crossroads
Kashmir is at a major moment of flux, the existing political order stands humiliated, the peace and tranquility assumptions of the last twenty years are in tatters. Put into the perspective of history, dwindling legitimacy is a continuing trend. Both Jammu & Kashmir and New Delhi stand at the crossroads. The rhetoric is becoming shriller.
Women’s Role in 2010 Uprising
A sociological view
The fact needs no reiteration that women’s participation in the on-going uprising for ‘Azaadi’ stands equal and total. This has contributed to the total social support to the present demonstrations. This phenomenon has not occurred without any reason or factor.
From ‘Normalcy’ to Freedom
The present crisis shattered the illusion of peace and prosperity in the Valley. Manifest in the cunning and deadly blanket word, ‘normalcy,’ this illusion made it easier for many elements, over the years, to create divisions among Kashmiris especially on the issue of independence versus integration. What does normalcy mean in Kashmir?
Transitory Phase Economics For Kashmir
I am writing this article based on the situation which has developed in the last three months and keeping in view the direction Kashmir is taking .This all started with a paradigm shift during the Amaranth crisis where in the whole movement got converted into a non-violent one.
Are hartals the way ahead
Are hartals - and their frequent weeklong extensions - necessary for taking separatist struggle forward? The question has perturbed people in Valley ever since the first outbreak of ongoing Azadi campaign in Valley two decades ago. But so far this is an argument that has been only resolved in separatists’ favour.
Generational uprising in Kashmir
A man made disaster
The Generation In Revolt
Tourism: Mired in archaic approach
Capital milieu
Mind your facts
Shiekh Showkat
A factual error sneaked into the previous issue of Kashmir Life. Though newspapers referred as they are as literature in hurry, tend to make mistakes, and include factual errors, this one was related to a historical fact. The newspaper column” Personality of the Week for the issue dated 2010-04-03 talked about Mirwaiz Umar being the first Kashmiri separatist leader to have started Chinese diplomacy. The author also mentioned that Sheikh Abdullah had good relations with the then Chinese PM Chou en Lai and the two had several meetings. Then it said that “When Sheikh Abdullah visited Beijing, the Chinese premier received him at the airport”.