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		<title>The Place of Dissent in the Campus: Akshath Jitendranath</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/02/03/the-place-of-dissent-in-the-campusakshath-jitendranath-writes-from-symbiosis-university-pune/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shuddhabrata Sengupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post by AKSHATH JITENDRANATH, student at Symbiosis International University, Pune, where a screening of &#8216;Jahsn-e-Azadi&#8217; by Sanjay Kak was cancelled under pressure from right-wing groups and the Pune Police. The university campus is where nascent opinion moulds itself into ideological shape. Care must be taken to surround the student with ideologies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11476&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To the Students and Faculty of Symbiosis University on the Censors in their Midst</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/31/to-the-students-and-faculty-of-symbiosis-university-on-the-censors-in-their-midst/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shuddhabrata Sengupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Students, Dear Teachers, Dear Friends at Symbiosis University, Pune You are faced with an extraordinary situation. A symposium on Kashmir that was to be held in your institution with the support of the University Grants Commission, has been cancelled, postponed (see update at the end of the post) following complaints by activists of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11410&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How We Celebrate Freedom</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/30/how-we-celebrate-freedom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hindu reports that a university in Pune has cancelled a planned screening of Sanjay Kak&#8217;s 2007 documentary film, Jashn-e-Azadi: How We Celebrate Freedom. Speaking to The Hindu over telephone, Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce principal Hrishikesh Soman stated that the ABVP had approached him on Friday, and that the college agreed to cancel the film [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11398&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Kashmiri Pandits May Never Return to Kashmir: Raju Moza</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/30/why-kashmiri-pandits-may-never-return-to-kashmir-raju-moza/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by RAJU MOZA It was in the month of January in 1990 that the onset of militancy in Kashmir resulted in the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits to Jammu, Delhi and elsewhere. Every year since then, January brings back the question of their return to their homes, in the press and increasingly on the internet. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11390&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In the name of sovereignty: APDP</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/25/in-the-name-of-sovereignty-apdp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This release comes from the ASSOCIATION OF PARENTS OF DISAPPEARED PERSONS, the Bund, Amira Kadal, Srinagar – 190001, Jammu and Kashmir Press Statement, 25th January 2012: On 17th October 2011, Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) submitted an application for information under Right to Information Act 2009 to the office of the Public Information Officer of State Department of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11367&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the Srinagar Sharia court&#8217;s statement against Christian pastors: AICC</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/14/on-the-srinagar-sharia-courts-statement-against-christian-pastors-aicc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 08:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This release comes from ALL INDIA CHRISTIAN COUNCIL comes to us via John Dayal All India Christian Council concern at Srinagar Sharia court statement against Christian pastors New Delhi, 13 January 2012 The All India Christian Council is deeply disturbed at the Srinagar based Sharia Court issuing a statement against Christian pastors Jim Borst and C M Khanna [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11154&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Human Rights Review &#8211; Jammu and Kashmir in 2011: JKCCS</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/12/31/human-rights-review-jammu-and-kashmir-in-2011-jkccs/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2011/12/31/human-rights-review-jammu-and-kashmir-in-2011-jkccs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This release comes from the JAMMU AND KASHMIR COALITION OF CIVIL SOCIETY, the Bund, Amira Kadal, Srinagar 190001, (www.jkccs.net) TOTAL KILLINGS Year 2011 has just passed, and many have declared this year, a peaceful year in Jammu and Kashmir. Of course assertions of peace by various quarters are relative. Enforced silence cannot be construed as peace. Despite [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11069&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>J&amp;K government has buried the SHRC report on unmarked graves in Kashmir: APDP</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/12/28/jk-government-has-buried-the-shrc-report-on-unmarked-graves-in-kashmir-apdp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This release comes from the ASSOCIATION OF PARENTS OF DISAPPEARED PERSONS,  the Bund Amira Kadal, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir 28 December 2011: Callousness of the government continues vis-à-vis victims of human rights abuses and in particular against the family members of those who have disappeared in the last two decades in Jammu and Kashmir. The relatives of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11029&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Z for Zalim: Semiotics and the Occupation of Kashmir</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/12/26/z-for-zalim-semiotics-and-the-occupation-of-kashmir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea. My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things, seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. At such a time I found out for certain, that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=10992&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas, Rev. Khanna: Thinking about Freedom and Intolerance in Kashmir</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/12/25/merry-christmas-rev-khanna-thinking-about-freedom-and-intolerance-in-kashmir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 20:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shuddhabrata Sengupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to begin writing this by wishing a very happy Christmas to Reverend C.M. Khanna, a Protestant presbyter in the All Saint&#8217;s Church, Srinagar, Indian held Jammu &#38; Kashmir, who has been facing a situation that no free man should ever have to countenance. He has had to face an arrest (though, thankfully now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=10978&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shahid in Srinagar: Arif Ayaz Parrey</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/12/11/shahid-in-srinagar-arif-ayaz-parrey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 13:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by ARIF AYAZ PARREY I must go back briefly to a place I have loved to tell you those you will efface I have loved [i] Exactly ten years after he left us, Aga Shahid Ali returned to his Kashmir. A couple of days earlier, many parts of the valley were blessed with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=10883&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parveena Ahangar rejects CNN-IBN&#8217;s nomination for &#8216;Indian of the Year 2011&#8242;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This press release has been issued by the PARVEENA AHANGAR-led ASSOCIATION OF PARENTS FOR DISAPPEARED PERSONS Srinagar, December 10, 2011:  On this ‘International Human Rights Day’, December 10, 2011, the APDP (Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons), Srinagar, wishes to state that there is something obscene and perverse in the manner the CNN-IBN has nominated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=10877&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pundit Manto&#8217;s First Letter to Pundit Nehru</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is M. ASADUDDIN&#8216;s translation of a letter written by SA&#8217;ADAT HASAN MANTO to Jawaharlal Nehru in 1954. This translation first appeared in The Annual of Urdu Studies (volume 11, 1996). Pundit-ji, assalamu alaikum! This is the first letter I’m sending you. By the grace of God you’re considered very handsome by the Americans. Well, my features [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=10665&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An open letter from a photojournalist assaulted by Indian security forces in Kashmir: Yawar Kabli</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by YAWAR KABLI All freedoms enshrined in the Constitution of India are being violated or altogether thrown away by the Jammu and Kashmir Police. One could substantiate that with any number of examples. We were not the first pressmen to be thrashed by the police while covering the stone-hurling protests in the Kashmir. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=10603&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Uthao, uthao video ab, won&#8217;t you make the video now?</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/11/27/uthao-uthao-video-ab-wont-you-make-the-video-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No tears will be shed for press freedom for attacks on journalists in Srinagar by the Central Reserve Police Force and the Jammu and Kashmir Police. Fahad Shah reports what happened in Srinagar yesterday: Journalists were beaten up and one of them detained, today, when they were covering the post-Friday prayers protests in the Old [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=10576&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rain, Eid and Geelani: Sameer Bhat</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/11/13/rain-eid-and-geelani-sameer-bhat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SAMEER BHAT A fine rain was falling as I disembarked the aircraft. Srinagar was shivering at 7 degrees centigrade. Rams and ewes, all set for slaughter on Eid, looked forlorn. Meat-market persons in untidy pherans haggled with locals for rates. Half the male population, I noticed, had not seen a shaving blade for weeks, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=10365&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mistaken Identity: Arif Ayaz Parrey</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 21:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by ARIF AYAZ PARREY The Indian army in Kashmir must be reading a lot of Manto these days. Or Borges. Or Kundera. Or &#8211;and this is most likely, given the approaching winter season and their &#8216;hearts and minds&#8217; programme&#8211; Kashmiri folklore. Not three months have passed since they made a highly publicized acknowledgement [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=10361&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hooligans of Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena strike again</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 06:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maraa, a media and arts collective in Bangalore, has been organizing a monthly event called Pause: Creative Practice in Conflict.  This is a public event, inviting one speaker to present examples of creative practice in a conflict afflicted area. Previous events have showcased examples from Palestine and Afghanistan. In November, Maraa had planned a similar event [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=10282&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kashmir&#8217;s Horcrux: Sameer Bhat</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/11/02/kashmirs-horcrux-sameer-bhat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SAMEER BHAT Hectic parleys are on at the moment to jettison the dreaded AFSPA in the valley. By conservative estimates the army must have beaten about one in every five Kashmiris at one point or the other since this piece of horrible legislation was slapped on us. An unjust law, is no law [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=10188&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A prologue to memory: Arif Ayaz Parrey</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by ARIF AYAZ PARREY Over the corner shop at the busy crossing near home hangs a white board on which the words ‘Muzaffar Pan-House’ are painted in bright red. On the right side of the words, an artistic rendition of the side-view of Muzaffar’s face can be seen. His left hand is also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=10139&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AFSPA in Kashmir &#8211; &#8220;Armed Forces&#8217; Say Prevails Anyway&#8221;: Gowhar Geelani</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by GOWHAR GEELANI There is a lot of noise in the media over AFSPA. Ask any senior Indian security official, a turn-coat politician or a retired Army General what AFSPA stands for. &#8220;Armed Forces Special Powers Act,&#8221; they will say. Now pose the same query to an ordinary Kashmiri living there in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=10133&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>End the culture of impunity, not just AFSPA: APDP</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a press release from the ASSOCIATION OF PARENTS OF DISAPPEARED PERSONS The Bund Amira Kadal, Srinagar – 190001, Jammu and Kashmir 28th October 2011 APDP feels that the recent announcement by the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on the partial revocation of Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) from some areas of Jammu and Kashmir [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=10081&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Signs of improving times</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two incidents that took place recently provide hope, underlining that the India-Pakistan peace process must indeed be on track. One incident was related to the UN and the other to Kashmir, if you can believe it. On Oct 21, Pakistan won a hotly-contested seat to the UN Security Council, joining India as a two-year non-permanent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=10062&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lies about sanctions under AFSPA: JKCCS</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/10/23/lies-about-sanctions-under-afspa-jkccs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This press statement was issued by the JAMMU AND KASHMIR COALITION OF CIVIL SOCIETY on 19 October 2011    Over the last 22 years in Jammu and Kashmir, the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and Cr.P.C. 197 has provided absolute legal impunity to the armed forces and the Jammu and Kashmir Police. The Government [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=10012&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking Truth and Reconciliation in Kashmir: Shuja Malik</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SHUJA MALIK &#8220;Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)&#8221; is a recent addition in the lexicon of the Kashmir conflict/dispute. IT gained currency after recent confirmation of reports about presence of unmarked, unidentified and mass graves in Kashmir. The idea of a TRC for Kashmir raises questions about its relevance and context, especially unidentified graves [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=9984&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Assaulting Prashant Bhushan only proves the moral strength of his argument</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Threatening people whose views you don&#8217;t like with violence is a sure-shot way of letting the world know who is right and whose argument is morally superior. To those who attacked Prashant Bhushan today for the comments he made in this video below, thank you for bringing more attention to them! This is how &#8220;integral&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=9799&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Untitled: Najeeb Mubarki</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by NAJEEB MUBARKI I could have met Sebald. I went to Britain in September 2001, And he died in December. East Anglia wasn’t all that far way From London, nothing, really, Is all that far away in Britain. I could have met him, if I had known him Then. What I would have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=9774&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>David Barsamian&#8217;s Deportation: Statement of Protest</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/09/29/david-barsamians-deportation-statement-of-protest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[STATEMENT OF PROTEST We write to protest the denial of entry to David Barsamian by Immigration Authorities at the New Delhi airport in the early hours of September 23, 2011, and we write to draw attention to the growing arbitrariness of the Indian Government in dealing with dissent of any kind. David Barsamian is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=9670&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;This obfuscation amounts to complicity&#8217; &#8211; APDP response to Omar Abdullah&#8217;s speech on unmarked and mass graves</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This release comes from the ASSOCIATION OF PARENTS OF DISAPPEARED PERSONS The Bund Amira Kadal, Srinagar – 190001, Jammu and Kashmir Press Release: 28th September 2011 Yesterday’s (27th September 2011) statement made by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on unmarked graves and mass graves is hurtful and amounts to trivializing a serious issue of enforced disappearances [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=9646&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An open letter from Amnesty International to members of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/09/26/an-open-letter-from-amnesty-international-to-members-of-the-jammu-and-kashmir-legislative-assembly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a public statement by AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AI Index: ASA 20/046/2011 26 September 2011 As the session of the Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly opens in Srinagar, Amnesty International is writing to all members of the legislative assembly (MLAs) to raise human rights concerns in the house and ensure that such issues are not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=9635&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unknown and Unmarked Graves of Kashmir: Investigation, Prosecution, and Reparation: IPTK</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/09/26/unknown-and-unmarked-graves-of-kashmir-investigation-prosecution-and-reparation-iptk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This release comes from the INTERNATIONAL PEOPLE’S TRIBUNAL ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND JUSTICE  IN INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR (IPTK) Srinagar, September 26, 2011 To: Honourable Members Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly Government of Jammu and Kashmir Re.: Unknown and Unmarked Graves of Kashmir: Investigation, Prosecution, and Reparation We appeal to the Members of the Jammu and Kashmir State Legislative Assembly to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=9629&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>India deports radio broadcaster David Barsamian upon arrival at Delhi airport</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/09/23/india-deports-radio-broadcaster-david-barsamian-upon-arrival-at-delhi-airport/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: The Press Trust of India confirms the Kashmir angle. See more updates at the end of this post. David Barsamian, founder director of Alternative Radio, and independent radio legend, was deported on arrival from New Delhi airport in the early hours of Sept 23. Details are awaited since David is probably still on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=9560&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Growing up with PTV in Poonch: Saqib Mumtaz</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aarti Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SAQIB MUMTAZ Away from the revolution of direct to home (DTH) and cable TV networks, the nineties were the time of one channel, when Doordarshan was synonymous with Television for most Indians, especially in rural areas. There was not much on television for a kid growing up except the occasional cartoon clips [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=9458&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prominent Indian journalist beaten up by Jammu and Kashmir Police</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the Jammu and Kashmir Police a private, leaderless, unaccountable militia force that can go about beating up anyone they like in the name of saving Kashmir for India? Well known Indian author and journalist David Devadas, a fellow with the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in Delhi and author of a book on Kashmir, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=9447&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On a Lit Note: Hilal Mir</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by HILAL MIR I woke up this morning in an utterly confused state of mind. During the night I dreamt about having the tour of the Harud Literary Festival. My first astonishment came while in a queue outside the venue. Like the French streaming Parisian streets in teary-eyed joy at the sight of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=9428&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harud Literary Festival: The Misrepresentation Continues</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/09/09/harud-literary-festival-the-misrepresentation-continues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a post on the Wall Street Journal&#8217;s India Realtime blog, journalist Tom Wright says at one point: In the open letter, the signatories said it was impossible to have a literary festival in Kashmir [Link] I asked him on Twitter as to where the open letter says that. He replied: the opening graph says [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=9402&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Killing poetry and other possibilities of life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>apoorvanand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The news of the &#8216;postponement&#8217; of Harud, a literary festival scheduled to be held in Kashmir in September, should be read with concern by those who believe in, and fight for, the right to express themselves freely. How the self-righteousness of some fighters for democracy actually forecloses any possibility of democracy can be seen from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=9391&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the Harud Literary Festival, setting the record straight</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/09/04/on-the-harud-literary-festival-setting-the-record-straight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 15:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is sad that a literature festival that was to be held in Srinagar later this month has been indefinitely postponed. What is even sadder is that while announcing its postponement on HarudLitFest.org, the organisers of the Harud Literature Festival (the same team that puts up the acclaimed Jaipur Literature Festival) have sought to blame those [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=9304&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hypocrisy in Any Season: Mridu Rai responds to Rahul Pandita on the Harud Literature Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by MRIDU RAI Rahul Pandita has written a misleading piece—in the tone of high dudgeon and ethical outrage no less—in the ‘essays’ section of the 3 September 2011 issue of Open magazine titled “The Autumn of Hypocrisy”. I think it is a piece that, nevertheless, requires some examination mostly because it makes several assertions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=9270&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harud Literature Festival &#8216;postponed&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/08/31/harud-literature-festival-postponed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it is sad that the Harud Literature Festival has been &#8220;postponed&#8220;. Sadder still is that the organisers are blaming those who asked very valid questions. All they needed to do was answer those questions and allay those concerns. Their response, two days after the release of the open letter, did not address those [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=9251&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Response to SHRC&#8217;s Report on Unknown and Unmarked Graves of Kashmir: IPTK</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This press statement comes from the INTERNATIONAL PEOPLE&#8217;S TRIBUNAL ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND JUSTICE IN INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR (IPTK) together with the ASSOCIATION OF PARENTS OF DISAPPEARED PERSONS 29 August 2011: We welcome the report of the State Human Rights Commission of Jammu and Kashmir (SHRC) on unmarked graves in north Indian-administered Kashmir (dated July 2011 and recently released; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=9187&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Response from the Harud Literature Festival</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/08/27/a-response-from-harud-literature-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 10:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to the open letter expressing a set of concerns about the forthcoming Harud Literature Festival, the festival organisers have responded: We wish to categorically state that the Harud literature festival is not government sponsored. It has been conceived with the intent of creating a platform for free and open debate, discussion and dialogue [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=9069&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An open letter on the ‘Harud’ literary festival</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/08/25/an-open-letter-on-the-%e2%80%98harud%e2%80%99-literary-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[* Given below is an open letter signed by fourteen of us. Should you want to add your name to it, please do so in the comments section of this post. I shall update the names of the signatories on the post itself. Please clearly indicate that you want your name added, and write your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=8842&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When the State Celebrates the People&#8217;s Independence but the People Don&#8217;t: Twelve Questions for the Press Trust of India</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/08/16/twelve-questions-for-the-press-trust-of-india-on-indian-independence-day-15-august-in-kashmir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To: The Editor, The Press Trust of India, New Delhi. Dear Editor: This is regarding your news report, &#8220;I-Day Celebrated Peacefully in Kashmir Valley&#8220;. While the news report tells us how the celebrations were held by the chief minister in Srinagar and the deputy chief minister in Jammu, and what arrangements were made for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=8670&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Half Widow, Half Wife? Responding to Gendered Violence in Kashmir: APDP</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/07/28/half-widow-half-wife-responding-to-gendered-violence-in-kashmir-apdp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a press release from the ASSOCIATION OF PARENTS OF DISAPPEARED PERSONS, The Bund Amira Kadal, Srinagar, 190001. It is about a new report, which you can download in .pdf format at the end of this press release. Srinagar, July 28, 2011 – The Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) today released the report Half Widow, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=8545&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The question we are not asking about Fai, Tramboo and Shawl</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/07/24/the-question-we-are-not-asking-about-fai-tramboo-and-shawl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Please see two updates at the end of this post.) &#8216;Gotcha!&#8217; That is the sound I hear in the Indian media and amongst patriotic fellow-Indians in response to the arrest of Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai, an American citizen of Indian origin, by the Unites States Federal Bureau of Investigation. Most analyses of the Fai arrest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=8477&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A rape in Kulgam; the dishonouring of India continues</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine there had been a rape in Delhi. Imagine the headlines in the papers. They would have been loud and angry. As they are, and as they must be. Do you think any of the papers would have said that the woman in question has &#8216;accused&#8217; or &#8216;alleged&#8217; who the perpetrator was? But there has been a rape [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=8459&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Martyrs’ Days: Memorializing 13 July 1931 in Kashmir: Mridu Rai</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/07/13/martyrs%e2%80%99-days-memorializing-13-july-1931-in-kashmir-mridu-rai/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by Mridu Rai It is widely believed that the Kashmir conflict has its roots in the Partition of India in August 1947. This view perpetuates the understanding of the conflict as one between India and Pakistan. However, recognising that the roots of the conflict lie in an earlier history &#8211; indeed, that there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=8377&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking of Synthesis</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/07/01/speaking-of-synthesis-kashmir-heritage-architecture-shrines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sohail Hashmi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask any first time visitor to Kashmir about their impressions and you will, in all likelihood, be inundated with superlatives about the landscape, the mountains, the greenery, the hospitality, the gardens, the lakes and what not, but there is one thing that both the first timer and the old Kashmir hand rarely talk about and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=7782&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye UN, Hello Sarpanch: Jahangir Rana</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/06/23/goodbye-un-hello-sarpanch-jahangir-rana/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by JAHANGIR RANA It has now become an established trend for the Indian political establishment to beat the drums of ‘victory’ after every electoral process in Kashmir. Almost invariably, prior to an election, this establishment maintains that the issue of resolution is not linked to elections in the disputed state. However, as soon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=8253&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ice-Cream Flavour Mint&#8217;s Editors Don&#8217;t Like</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/06/20/mint-edit-on-gautam-navlakha-barred-in-kashmir-omar-abdullah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There are some tropes that refuse to die,&#8221; said a &#8220;Quick Edit&#8221; titled &#8220;Of Political Tourists&#8221; in Mint on Tuesday, 14 June, &#8220;In Jammu and Kashmir, it has to be stone pelters, marauding security men and an ineffective government.&#8221; The edit forgot another trope there: the lies and obfuscation that the Delhi media indulges in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=8175&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Mountains Are Coming Closer</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/06/13/mountains-closing-in-kashmir-srinagar-201/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This article by me has appeared in the Sunday Guardian, Delhi, and the Friday Times, Lahore.) The voices that reverberate in your head after a visit to Kashmir leave you numb, making you sadder the more you think about them. You know that it is going to be worse when you visit next year. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=8143&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gautam Navlakha detained, denied entry into Kashmir: Press note from IPTK</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/05/28/gautam-navlakha-detained-entry-into-kashmir-press-note-from-iptk/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2011/05/28/gautam-navlakha-detained-entry-into-kashmir-press-note-from-iptk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 13:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Press Note: For immediate release INTERNATIONAL PEOPLE’S TRIBUNAL ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND JUSTICE IN INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR (IPTK) www.kashmirprocess.org From: Dr. Angana Chatterji, Convener IPTK and Professor, Anthropology, California Institute of Integral Studies; and advocate Parvez Imroz, Convener IPTK and Founder, Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society TRIBUNAL CO-CONVENER DENIED ENTRY INTO KASHMIR Srinagar, May 28, 2011: On [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=7974&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>अफ्स्पा: एक काले कानून की आधी सदी: महताब आलम</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/05/22/%e0%a4%85%e0%a4%ab%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b8%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%aa%e0%a4%be-%e0%a4%8f%e0%a4%95-%e0%a4%95%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b2%e0%a5%87-%e0%a4%95%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%a8%e0%a5%82%e0%a4%a8-%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%80-%e0%a4%86/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 14:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by MAHTAB ALAM आज  बाईस मई की सुबह जब ऑफिस या काम पर जाने की चिंता से बेफिक्र हम सोते रहेंगे, उसी समय नॉर्थ-ईस्ट और कश्मीर की जनता जो सुबह देखेगी, वह कानून के नाम पर बर्बरता की  53 वीं  सालगिरह होगी.  जी हाँ, मैं आर्म्ड फोर्सेस स्पेशल पावर्स एक्ट (अफ्स्पा) की  बात कर रहा हूँ. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=7932&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ghosts Will Walk: Sanjay Kak reviews Mirza Waheed&#8217;s &#8220;The Collaborator&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/05/05/the-ghosts-will-walk-sanjay-kak-reviews-mirza-waheeds-the-collaborator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 10:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By SANJAY KAK “Kashmir will haunt India the way Algeria haunts France.” I remember that from ten years ago, on one of those early e-groups, the provocation almost buried in the dense threads that made up conversation there. “It will haunt Indian intellectuals”, the young Kashmiri correspondent had promised darkly, “in the way Algeria continues to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=7646&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Disappearance of Susheel Raina: APDP protests unabated disappearances in Kashmir</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/05/01/the-disappearance-of-susheel-raina-apdp-protest-against-the-unabated-disappearances-in-kashmir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 09:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Press Release issued on 28 April 2011 by the ASSOCIATION OF PARENTS OF DISAPPEARED PERSONS, led by Parvez Imroz. The APDP also staged a protest in Srinagar.  Susheel Raina, 21, son of Badrinath Raina disappeared from Chandergam, Aishmuqam in district Anantnag (Islamabad) on 4th April 2011. Susheel left his home to collect a certificate from Boys Degree College [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=7595&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Present of the Absent State</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/05/01/present-of-the-absent-state-rahul-pandita-neelesh-misra-review-by-shivam-vij/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 08:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[An edited version of this review has appeared in Biblio.] The Absent State: Insurgency as an Excuse for Misgovernance by Neelesh Misra and Rahul Pandita Hachette India, 2010 272 pages, 495 Rs Indian journalists have written books on conflict as diaries of their years of reportage, putting together their stories and experiences. The task of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=7590&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>India&#8217;s Kashmir policy described in one photograph by Javed Dar</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/04/26/indias-kashmir-policy-described-in-one-photograph/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 05:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This photograph of an Ikhwani camp in south Kashmir was taken by JAVED DAR in 2008. Standing in the middle is a well-known &#8216;government gunman&#8217;, Jehangir Khan. Photo courtesy Conveyor. Filed under: Bad ideas, Centre watch, Empire, Frontiers, Government, Law, Violence-Conflict Tagged: Kashmir, Kashmir azadi, Kashmir conflict, Kashmir Ikhwanis<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=7539&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cricket, Azadi and Pakistan: Mir Laieeq Ishtiyaq</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by MIR LAIEEQ ISHTIYAQ As all of India celebrated the well-deserved Indian victory in the cricket world cup finals, the mood in the Kashmir valley was different. Their favourite team was ousted in the semi-final itself. On the eve of the semi-final between India and Pakistan at Mohali, a friend asked on Facebook: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=7396&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free Murtaza Manzoor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This release comes from AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Urgent Action: Child Detained Without Charge or Trial UA: 115/11 Index: ASA 20/015/2011 India Date: 14 April 2011 Murtaza Manzoor has been held in administrative detention since 8 February by police in Jammu and Kashmir, India. His official birth certificate states that he is only 17 years old. Murtaza Manzoor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=7384&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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