‘Voices should be hushed when children sleep, not when they are being slaughtered. Silence is complicity’ Embassy of the State of Palestine in India, based…
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Afghanistan: Top UN envoy calls for ‘a moment of realism’, as Taliban’s isolation grows
Particularly worrying is the situation of women and girls, as the Taliban’s severe restrictions on their rights and freedom persist. The recent closure of medical…
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‘Tiles with images of ladies in translucent outfits with soft wool shawls around their necks’
Dr Ahad’s analysis does not stop at the past; it extends to the present-day challenges facing Kashmiri shawl-makers. He exposes how mechanisation, market fluctuations, and…
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‘Don’t touch me, don’t touch me!’
Two little girls stare back from the photograph, their hands wrapped in heavy bandages. One is perhaps around five-years-old, the other barely three, innocence peeping…
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Home and hearth in Kashmir
After the professional lecture, we had a bit of chit chat. We wanted to know much more about Kashmiri cuisine. She told us about multiple dishes…
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‘She lives nice in marriage, they just need some salt’
The Srebrenica Genocide left an indelible mark on Bosnia. In Sarajevo, the Museum of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide stands as a solemn reminder of…
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A deep, deep feeling is breathing again…
Books. A book of forgotten songs by Jim Morrison and Leonard Cohen. A book with a film script by Satyajit Ray. A book called ‘Small…
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‘There is no way I could have made this film in today’s Kashmir’
‘I had a multi-cultural crew, with 52 per cent women – a rarity in America. Its lead protagonist is an Aramean actress. There were Latinos,…
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Oh, Mythical Nectar, Come, Enter my Soul too…
Let the amrit, the nector, of this churning enter our hearts and souls. Not as a myth, but as an everyday reality. Let it purify…
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The irony: Fat potatoes but lean farmers
In striking contrast to the improved and increased yield at this farm set up in 1972, the workers’ lives move in the reverse direction, nothing…
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