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Dear John, how could you leave out Kashmir from your segment on Modi?

Dear John, Last Week Tonight recently aired a segment on India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. The segment gained ample amount of traction, amassing six million views in three days and counting. It was a good decision to run with. Given the madness in Delhi right now, it was obviously a good call to zoom in […]

A 15-year-old Kashmiri Boy’s 70+ Days in an Indian Jail

Photo by Taha Zahoor, Religion Unplugged (https://religionunplugged.com/news/2019/11/15/the-children-detained-in-kashmir) In this third installment of SWK’s Voices from Kashmir series, 15 year old Umer Naikoo narrates his tale of being detained days after the abrogation of Article 370. SHOPIAN, Kashmir — Umer Bashir Naikoo’s legs hurt. For nearly three months, the 15-year-old boy was locked inside a small jail […]

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Harvard: Say No to Settlements and Ethnic Cleansing in Kashmir

Stand with Kashmir Boston and its allies request that Harvard University and the India Conference at Harvard distance themselves from Sandeep Chakravorty and individuals like him who make highly irresponsible statements that target entire communities. Such individuals should not be given a platform at any institute of higher learning. In November 2019, a […]

Kashmiri college student: ‘The Indian government is crushing our future’

For over five months, ordinary Kashmiris have been living under a communications blockade. It was only in mid January that the Indian government partially restored the internet (social media remains & hundreds of sites remain blocked). The communications and military siege on the region came following India’s abrogation of article-370, a law that […]

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“I collapsed outside the jail…I could not believe that my son was taken thousands of miles away”

Srinagar, Indian-occupied Kashmir: Ateeqa Begum’s 22-year-old son, Faisal, is among the thousands who were arrested as part of a massive crackdown by the Indian government to prevent dissent after it revoked Article 370. Faisal was sent to a jail in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh without even informing the family. Ateeqa’s story is the first […]

Stand with Kashmir Statement of Solidarity with Protesters in India

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Indian General Bipin Rawat argues for internment camps for Kashmir’s children. This is not the first time the general of the colonial state has made such vile comments.

by Faheem Hamid Lone Twitter: @faheemhamid2 Indian General Talks of ‘Deradicalization Camps’ for Kashmiris It’s unclear what Gen. Bipin Rawat, chief of India’s defense staff, meant. But rights activists fear that something…www.nytimes.com India’s first Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat on 16th January 2020 spoke of “de-radicalization camps” operating in India, where young […]

Testimonies from Kashmir students under siege

It’s been five months since India put the entire region of Jammu and Kashmir under a military siege. After abrogating Article 370 of the Indian constitution in August, the Indian government stripped Kashmir of its special status. Authorities imposed restrictions on the movement of people, while they gagged mobile phones and internet services. Soon, they […]

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A Kashmiri Perspective of Solidarity and the Protests Across India

For the past few days, thousands of Indians, including many students, have been protesting in cities and campuses across India against a new citizenship law, that effectively excludes the country’s 200 million Muslim minorities, and consolidates the BJP plan to create a Hindu majoritarian state. Nawal Ali Watali explains what the protests mean to her […]

Here’s what happened when a Kashmiri Muslim asked Hindu nationalists tough questions.

On 22 November, the Hindu Student Council at Rutgers University in New Jersey organized an event on Kashmir featuring Indian film maker Vivek Agnihotri. 26-year-old Kashmiri American Shajei Haider decided to attend the event. This is his account of what happened there. Last week, I got word the Hindu Student Council at […]

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