Soon after Facebook began offering users the option of changing their profile pictures to reflect their favourite teams in the recent ICC World T20, Kashmiris, like other cricket-loving people, used this option widely. Throughout the tournament, they kept changing their
I have been informed by my sources (read senses), though they may not be as reliable as Times Now and Zee News (read non-senses), that after the JNU kerfuffle, the newsfeed-space has been turned into a bloody Mad Max: Fury Road, in which a particular
1. Pahalgam. A happy and carefree 18-year-old, sitting on the rocks of the river Lidder, shivers at the sudden sharp drop in temperature. Within minutes, she’s thrilled with her first experience of snowfall. A family vacation in Kashmir—a favourite tourist destination;
This body, lumpy and dimpled and creased and unsmooth and scarred, this body is beautiful. Any body, all bodies. In all colours and shapes and sizes and measurements. But look at us, us fools, dwelling in the hope for Utopia
The US presidential election season has brought with it a slew of articles claiming that social media will revolutionise the 2016 campaign. Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Pinterest, Instagram: these are now being used by the candidates and their supporters to appeal
How does one begin a fragmented lingering story? I am unborn. Mother’s gaze pierces the dark skies as she stands at the window. I hear her heart’s pulsation. A mujahid has been martyred. Rain clouds gather. A funeral procession passes us—Ro
Around 10 pm on a humid May evening in 1997, I was sitting in my study room on the first floor of a two-storey home in the outskirts of Srinagar, about ten kilometers south of Lal Chowk and the city
The public meeting at JNU on 9 February that launched a thousand doctored videos was held to commemorate the executions of Afzal Guru and Maqbool Butt. Could you begin by talking about why these two cases are still open wounds
Same old story As I write this, almost two months have passed since the events of 9–10 February, when Kashmiri and non-Kashmiri women and men, mostly students, incensed the polluted Delhi air with the most fragrant slogans of azadi. The
Kashmir is again on the edge. The ground reality is marked by unease and frustration. For over 25 years, the place is confronting a conflict that has emanated from continuous denial of resolving the political dispute. As New Delhi refuses