Archive of Kashmir

To be a Kashmiri in India is to be a stranger in your own country. Writer Majid Maqbool here writes about the experience of Kashmiris under the rule of Modi and the BJP.

"Despite India’s successful overthrow of British rule, it has created a colonial occupation of its own in Jammu and Kashmir. And recently, it has been taking its cues straight from Israel’s playbook."

A report on the history and present day reality of police violence in India.

From New Delhi, Shigraf Zahbi reports on how "the virus" became "the Muslim virus" in less than a week.

Tariq Ali on the situation in Kashmir

The recent decision by the Indian prime minister Narendra Modi to end Kashmir's special status has once more brought the brutal colonial-style military occupation of the region by the world's largest democracy to global attention. In this, an extract from the book Kashmir: The Case for Freedom, Pankaj Mishra asks why, despite the demands of the population, "does the immense human suffering of Kashmir occupy such an imperceptible place in our moral imagination?"