A Letter To Unknown Indian

CRISIS CAST IN STONE

When pain makes it difficult to articulate coherently, quiet remembrance helps. Like many other Kashmiris, I have been in silence, committing to memory, the deed, the date, writes Basharat Peer

WHEN POEMS WRITTEN about totalitarian regimes echo in the hearts of a people purportedly living in a democracy, it is time for that democracy to take a hard look at the mirror. Over the past two months, as the numbers of Kashmiri protesters killed by Indian troops rose, I kept returning to a poem. In More

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Kashmir Comes to Jantar Mantar

Protest

True ‘Azaadi’ in Kashmir, for all its inhabitants, and for all those who have been displaced by more than twenty years of violence, can only help us all, in Delhi, and elsewhere, to breathe more freely, writes Shuddhabrata Sengupta

Last evening I went to Jantar Mantar after many years. It is a road I pass often, looking at the sad and melancholic little protests, whispering to an indifferent Capital the million mutinies of our banana plantation republic.Last evening was different. There were perhaps four to five hundred More

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Inside outside

SMHS

After all we come here to get our patients treated, but what do we get? Narrates Shoaib Shah

 As I was walking through the SMHS hospital passageway during these enduring curfewed nights, where I had been accompanying my father who is ailing from acute pancreatitis I came across the foundation stone of the SHMS hospital which was laid by the honorable Viceroy to India in 1940 and till More

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• Kashmir

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• South Asia

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