The Silent Defiance Of Banned Books: Kashmir’s Unyielding Truth
India’s war on Kashmiri narrative memory is longstanding, far preceding the recent ban on 25 books that made the headlines on August 5, 2025. The selective outrage over the book ban reveals the systematic erasure embedded in the 70+ year military occupation, where persecution, extrajudicial killings, native dispossession, and land grabs steadily dismantle Kashmiri life. […]
Kashmircore: India’s Tool to Erase Kashmiri Counter-Memory
In 2023, I had a tough time locating online links to some key citations for an essay for Global Voices. The piece was about the renowned Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez and his 2nd year of incarceration in an Indian jail. These were longstanding references to critical articles, links to Kashmiri and regional newspapers […]