Kashmir

In Kashmir, a Deaf and Mute Artisan Keeps Afloat a Dying Art

For half a century, Muhammad Yousuf Muran has been carving wood figurines, the last of his family to practise the art. The lack of patronage has led the younger generation to abandon this painstaking…
▶12-Mar-2024
Owais Gul, Adil Hussain
Essay

Kashmir: Loss, Memory and a Shared History

‘Is there something in the shared, yet dissimilar, histories of Kashmiris that might yet contain the hope of a more viable future, with all its challenges and difficulties?'
▶28-Apr-2022
Suvir Kaul
Review

The Kashmiri Women Demanding Answers

Zia’s ethnography of Kashmiri women activists seeking redressal for the enforced disappearance of their relatives resonates with the struggles faced by many across India's conflict zones.
▶06-Oct-2021
Dixita Deka

The English Education of a Kashmiri

"In a conflict-ridden space like Kashmir, can working-class people express and understand the world in a language that is not their own, while simultaneously aspiring to be upwardly mobile? Is…
▶23-Jun-2021
Ashaq Hussain Parray

India 2019

A curated set of 25 articles published in "The India Forum" during the past year that described, discussed and critiqued the many important events that took place in India in 2019, a…
▶23-Dec-2019
A collection

The Republic and the Kashmir Valley

India’s political experiment over seven decades had shown that federalism can accommodate diverse policies for diverse identities and thus strengthen democracy in a plural society. That has now been…
▶11-Sep-2019
Neera Chandhoke

Article 370, Federalism and the Basic Structure of the Constitution

Article 370 is a permanent and not temporary provision of the Constitution that assures Jammu and Kashmir autonomy. Its content may have been hollowed out but it remains important for the people of…
▶03-Jul-2019
Faizan Mustafa