This story first appeared in newslaundry.com SAWM member journalist Anuradha Bhasin writes how the arrest of Davinder Singh a deputy superintendent of Jammu and Kashmir Police has opened the dark side of the security apparatus in Kashmir. Beside delving deep into the layers of thus arrest she ins... Read more...
This story first appeared in Kashmir Times India is experiencing mass protest across the country against the BJP led central government. Editor of Kashmir Times and SAWM member Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal writes where exactly Kashmir stands and why the slogans and the resistance will ring hollow witho... Read more...
Recently the editor of Kashmir Times, Anuradha Bhasin, was at Mumbai Press Club to talk about the situation of Kashmir, which has been kept cleverly under wrap by the State. She talks about the Media, the local journalists who are facing huge trouble to report the reality. She was in conversation wi... Read more...
How exactly does it feel when after one month the landlines start to ring in a media office? The complete information shutdown in Kashmir for the last one month is barring to get the real picture. Journalists never felt such an isolation before. The process of silencing the voices from Kashmir seems... Read more...
New Zealand's 'hijab' campaign as part of solidarity for its Muslim community has been viewed differently across the globe. Many liberal feminist friends from across South Asia critiqued the move as 'patronising' and 'stereo-typing Muslim women' on the social media. The argument was based... Read more...
The complexity and intractability of Kashmir conflict has the strange potential of impacting every sphere of life including routine daily hum drum of ordinary lives in a myriad ways; and correspondingly everything under the sun has the inane ability of getting intrinsically politicised. Th... Read more...
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 reasoned as necessitated by the immensely worrisome securi... Read more...
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 worrisome. Everything is fair in love and war, it is said. If this w... Read more...
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. It should have inspired the country-men to emulate that exam... Read more...
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 for the day, reminiscent of Nero playing the fiddle as Rome ... Read more...
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 avoided. Beyond the war and stated positions is a human traged... Read more...
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 Kashmir? The shocking fidayeen attack in Pu... Read more...
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