Arshia Malik recounts how pro-India voices like her & her journalist husband were hounded & suppressed in Kashmir

Amidst fervent Independence Day celebrations in Kashmir, author Arshia Malik fondly recalls her Srinagar school days

A few days ago, Ruwa Shah granddaughter of the Jamaat-e-Islami ideologue, the late Syed Ali Shah Geelani, the hardliner separatist Hurriyat leader advertised her dissociation from her family’s ideology. The same week Sama Shabir, the elder daughter of the jailed Democratic Freedom Party founder and separatist leader Shabir Shah made a similar announcement through an […]

The Hindu liberal-Muslim communalist patron-client dynamic also obstructs Muslim mainstreaming into the broader Indic societal fabric, perpetuating a narrative that links the minority community with specific political or communal interests rather than recognizing them as integral contributors to the nation's progress.

I can sense a change in the 'fiza' of Kashmir as the intifada factory gets dismantled day by day, yet the problems of infrastructure, governance and work ethics which were there in the 80s and 90s are still present.

When analysts, commentators, and Kashmir experts write that abrogating Article 370 and converting J&K into two Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh was fraught and that statehood should be restored, native Kashmiris like me wonder what is next.

Abrogation of Article 370 has been upheld, Kashmir is fully integrated into India, the ambiguous, confused identity of Kashmiri Muslims has been solved and they now have the chance to reverse the damage that these thirty years of jihad inflicted on the social fabric of the region.

Self-appointed gatekeepers of India's Kashmir policy are one of the biggest threats to peace and stability in the region

Jharkhand’s groundbreaking women-only mosque challenges traditional gender roles, empowering women in Islamic leadership

Dominance of a single narrative in Kashmir has overshadowed diverse perspectives and contributed to the perpetuation of biased portrayals