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Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal is Executive Editor Kashmir Times, the oldest English daily in Jammu and Kashmir which has continued to maintain an independent voice despite many threats and intimidations.

She has also accomplished long term research projects on media reportage, conflict, human rights and gender. She is also a Commonwealth fellow, 2016.

As an individual and part of several civil society groups including India chapter of Pakistan India Peoples Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD), South Asians for Human Rights, Forum for Democratic Rights and Women's Regional Networking, she has been advocating for human rights, women rights and peace in South Asia. She continues to be a member of the national executive of the PIPFPD and has remained its co-chairperson from 2012-2017.

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INJECTING A DEMOCRATIC FARCE IN THREE DOSES

Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal Mar 18, 2019 0

MARGINALIA To the many unprecedented methods employed in the last seven decades by New Delhi while handling a hot potato like Kashmir is yet another addition - three-phased polling in Anantnag parliamentary constituency. The move is being…

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JARRING VOCABULARY AND ITS DUALISTIC IMPORT

Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal Mar 11, 2019 0

MARGINALIA A phrase post the Balakot air-strikes repeatedly used by prime minister Narendra Modi and his man Friday Amit Shah, "Hamne Dushman ko Ghar mein ghuss kar mara hai" (We have beaten up the Enemy by entering his house), is…

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FOR LOVE OF A BLOODY WAR

Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal Mar 4, 2019 0

The video of Wing Commander Abhinandan as prisoner of war in Pakistan standing with poise and dignity, after being beaten by a bunch of villagers, and answering the questions of the Pakistani army officers made him endearing and admirable.…

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POLITICAL MILCHING OF A TRAGEDY

Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal Feb 24, 2019 0

Within minutes of the Pulwama attack, as news studios went ballistic and outrage across the country reached a crescendo, the prime minister who should have immediately addressed the nation with an appeal for calm and unity remained missing…

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OUTRAGE IS NATURAL BUT DO WE WANT TO LEARN LESSONS FROM PULWAMA?

Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal Feb 19, 2019 0

Pulwama's gory spectacle is haunting. The mangled wreckage of the bus, the strewn body pieces leave behind the tell-tale signs of the lives that existed seconds before the explosion, of the brutality of loss of lives that could have been…

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Lessons from Pulwama: Conflict ‘management’ must give way to conflict resolution

Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal Feb 16, 2019 0

Since 2016, methods to deal with the entire population of Kashmir have been bullets, pellets, crackdowns and arrests. Such a policy does not end a cult of violence or wipe out militancy How much more blood will be spilled in…

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Refugees twice over: Why Rohingya who had found shelter in Jammu are fleeing again

Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal Feb 13, 2019 0

Facing hostility from Hindutva groups and the Indian government, some of them have been forced to seek the relative safety of Bangladesh. On January 18, at least 31 Rohingya refugees from Jammu were arrestedin the no man’s land…

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Cong Needs To Rethink The Road It Is Taking For Electoral Victory

Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal Feb 11, 2019 0

After 15 years, Madhya Pradesh was wrested from BJP by Congress. It was naive to believe that the change of power would also signal a halt to some of the hardcore Hindutva and essentially fascist policies followed by the BJP, especially in…

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Remembering Rakhine: As Jammu turns hostile to Rohingya, memories return of persecution in Myanmar

Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal Feb 10, 2019 0

The refugees had arrived in the northern Indian city to try to rebuild their lives. Now, they are being compelled to flee again. Abdul, a middle-aged Rohingya man, sells odds and ends at a makeshift shop at the Bhatindi refugee…

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