Project Kashmir

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we are memory keepers; documenting horror stories of the Kashmir conflict. Follow the hashtag #Kashmir

“what is hidden within India is Hindustan. It is that which tacitly shapes the state and determines the frontiers between freedom and repression, what is allowed and what is forbidden”

– Perry Anderson

with a population of approximately 12.5 million, Jammu and Kashmir has 1solider for every 17 Kashmirs, making it one of the most densely militarized zones in the world.

#Kashmir

What is fascism?

Robert Paxton’s definition, from Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s Substack newsletter.

pls read Uni of Virginia's excellent report on India's '#digital #authoritarianism' in #Kashmir -- the use of social media to threaten or detain #Kashmiri publics, journalists & human rights activists if posts, even indirectly, dissents from Indian govt narratives.
https://kashmir-scholars.org/2022/12/01/digital-authoritarianism-in-indian-administered-jammu-and-kashmir-a-report-by-international-human-rights-clinic-university-of-virginia/
Digital authoritarianism in Indian Administered Jammu and Kashmir: A report by International Human Rights Clinic, University of Virginia

Kashmir Scholars Consultative and Action Network KSCAN
180 militants, 31 troopers, 31 civilians killed in J-K in ongoing year: MHA - The Kashmiriyat

A total of 123 militancy related incidents have been reported from Jammu Kashmir in the ongoing year till November end, Ministry of Home Affairs told the upper house of Indian parliament.

The Kashmiriyat

Journalism in Kashmir is surviving on a razor edge. The few fearless reporters who are documenting the horror stories of this wretched land have been intimidated, silenced, and threatened while the quasi-press bodies are carrying an awful message through silence.

#Kashmir

https://thewire.in/media/kashmiri-journalist-khalid-gul-arrested-in-2017-case

Kashmiri Journalist Khalid Gul Arrested in 2017 Case

Khalid Gul is one of the several journalists whose residence was raided by police last month in connection with online threats to scribes.

The Wire

Speaking about human rights is not a crime.

#FreeKhurrmaParvez

The jury of the 53rd International Film Festival in Goa has slammed the controversial movie “The Kashmir Files”, which revolves around the killings and exodus of Kashmiri Pandits in 1990 from Kashmir Valley.

#Kashmir
https://thekashmirwalla.com/iffi-jury-slams-the-kashmir-files-calls-it-vulgar/

IFFI jury slams ‘The Kashmir Files’, calls it 'vulgar'

The jury of the 53rd International Film Festival in Goa has slammed the controversial movie "The Kashmir Files".

The Kashmir Walla
I hope he's well enough to promote this when it's released.