Article 370 abrogation

Report from Kashmir by a team from the Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) and the Free Speech Collective (FSC) . A month after the 5 August abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution of India, which granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir, the continuing shutdown of communication in the Kashmir valley has … Continue reading Kashmir’s information bloackade: The Network of Women in Media, India and The Free Speech Collective →

I write this open letter to you as a well wisher, and someone who has been seriously supportive of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) through all the ups and downs in the years since its formation.  Perhaps like many others, I too have high expectations of the experiment that AAP is and the new ground … Continue reading Nationalism and Politics – An Open Letter to Arvind Kejriwal →

Determined, defiant – not the Kashmiri women of Sanghi fantasies Protest in Srinagar against the abrogation of Article 370 on August 11, 2019, despite the clampdown by the Indian government. Image courtesy The Wall Street Journal. When trolls on social media started circulating photographs of young Kashmiri girls, gloating, “now we can marry them”, it … Continue reading Mujh se integration karogi? Sanghvaad and its war on women →