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		<title>Is the Hurriyat divorcing democracy and freedom?: Gowhar Geelani</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/25/is-the-hurriyat-divorcing-democracy-and-freedom-gowhar-geelani/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 16:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by GOWHAR GEELANI By any stretch of imagination, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference [APHC] has ceased to be an amalgam of ‘all parties’. It seems that this conglomerate of several pro-freedom political, social and religious parties is actually being run by a chosen few in a dictatorial manner. It is no secret now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12865&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If ‘temporary’ meant special, what would ‘special’ mean?: Gazala Peer</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/25/if-temporary-meant-special-what-would-special-mean-gazala-peer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 14:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by GAZALA PEER On 13, October 2010 a team of interlocutors was appointed by the Government of India to hold dialogue with all the sections of the society in Jammu and Kashmir. The team of interlocutors consisted of journalist Dileep Padgonkar, educationist Radha Kumar and the former Information Commissioner M. M. Ansari. After almost [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12883&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>…and now Judicial Impunity?: JKCCS</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/02/and-now-judicial-impunity-jkccs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 12:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This release comes from the JAMMU KASHMIR COALITION OF CIVIL SOCIETY 2 May 2012: The recent Supreme Court judgment in the Pathribal case is very disappointing. Fake encounters, along with various other human rights violations, have been a reality for the people of Jammu and Kashmir over the last twenty two years. In 2008, according to media [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12565&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pathribal ruling a setback for justice in Jammu and Kashmir: Amnesty International</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/02/pathribal-ruling-a-setback-for-justice-in-jammu-and-kashmir-amnesty-international/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 12:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This press release comes from AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 1 May 2012 Special powers that allow India’s armed forces suspected of involvement in extra-judicial killings to sidestep the civilian courts have been reinforced in a disappointing court ruling over the notorious killings of five Kashmiri civilians 12 years ago. India’s Supreme Court has contradicted a reported statement [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12563&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Semiotics of Happiness</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/04/28/the-semiotics-of-happiness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sunalini Kumar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by ABHIJIT DUTTA It is not every day that you wake up to find your Twitter timeline flooding with the assertion that Kashmir – of all places – is happy. Dangerous? Of course. Beautiful? well, yes, the postcards are pretty enough. Angry? Sure, they look it. Radical? Oh god, yes. Happy? If you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12525&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Brief Summary of the Interlocutors&#8217; Report on Kashmir: Shoaib Rafiq</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/04/25/a-brief-summary-of-the-interlocutors-report-on-kashmir-shoaib-rafiq/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This guest post by SHOAIB RAFIQ is an analysis of the Home Ministry-appointed group of interlocutors&#8217; report on Kashmir  We swear by the fundamentals of absurdism of that all we have learned our solutions will mimic the ludicrousness that we employ in our education, research, and other related shit. No sir, freedom needs a definition, an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12521&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A pointless battle in Siachen: Saadut Hussain</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/04/20/a-pointless-battle-in-siachen-saadut-hussain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SAADUT HUSSAIN   “We, the willing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.” Notes from the diary of a soldier who served in Siachen. (Original quote by Mother Teresa.) India and Pakistan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12455&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who killed four foreign tourists in Kashmir in 1995?</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/04/06/who-killed-four-foreign-tourists-in-kashmir-in-1995/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given below is the text of a petition submitted to the Jammu &#38; Kashmir State Human Rights Commission by the INTERNATIONAL PEOPLE’S TRIBUNAL ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND JUSTICE IN INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR (IPTK) together with the ASSOCIATION OF PARENTS OF DISAPPEARED PERSONS. A Division Bench of the SHRC will hear the case on 17 April  To, Mr. Tariq Ahmad [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12285&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free Waqar Ahmad</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The text below comes from the FREE WAQAR CAMPAIGN, freewaqar.org Waqar Ahmad Moharkan was born in Indian-held Kashmir in 1990. Currently, he is a final year student of Bachelor&#8217;s in Commerce at Srinagar&#8217;s Islamia College of Science and Commerce. Waqar was arrested on 4 October, 2011, during a raid on his house in Lal Bazaar on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12011&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jashn-e-Azadi successfully screened at Delhi University despite right-wing threats &amp; police pressure: AISA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shuddhabrata Sengupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by ALL INDIA STUDENTS&#8217; ASSOCIATION (AISA) AISA and Students of Sociology Department (DU) Successfully Screen Jashn-e-Azaadi in DU, Braving Attacks and Threats by ABVP and ‘Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena’! Hundreds of Delhi University Students Participate in Film Screening and Discussion with Sanjay Kak, Director of Jashn-e-Azadi!! Today hundreds of DU students and teachers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=11602&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Abu Talha Moment: Sanjay Kak</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/02/15/my-abu-talha-moment-sanjay-kak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SANJAY KAK Last week was my Abu Talha moment. That’s when dubious honours rain on you, unsolicited, undeserved. There I was, charged with wrecking a literary festival in Kashmir; links to the Parliament attack case; racism against Kashmiri pandits; scuttling a film screening in a women’s college in Delhi… And if that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=11590&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Screening Jashn-e-Azadi  at Presidency University, Kolkata: Waled Aadnan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by Waled Aadnan It can be said that 86/1 College Street, Calcutta, has seen a microcosm of the history of modern India unfold within its walls. Since 1874 when the already fifty-nine year old Presidency College shifted to its current address, future Presidents and Prime Ministers of  India, Pakistan and Bangladesh; Nobel Laureates, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=11567&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=11476&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=11410&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=11398&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=11390&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=11367&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=11154&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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>
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		<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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=11069&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=11029&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=10992&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=10978&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=10883&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=10877&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=10665&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=10603&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=10576&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=10365&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=10361&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=10282&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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