I glanced at the overcast sky. The snow was falling as well as accumulating. I wondered at the unicolored landscape. White. What if life were a single colour? What if every person was just one colour? One always happy, another always sad, another wicked and the like? It was an eerily quiet morning. The only…
The Dollar Thermals advertisement is not the first, neither the most disturbing. A lot of movies have been made which make masses in India believe that Kashmiris are some wild people. The cringe unfolded like this: It was nine in the evening, everyone had gathered in the living room to watch a TV serial. But…
Kashmir: Homeland and dispute. Even though people talk of it as paradise, it is everything else than a paradise for a resident. Kashmir. This one word inspires so many thoughts, brings forth so many things, images, that Iโm not sure where to start. For an Indian, itโs the crown and an integral part of the…
As the 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder convicts kept exhausting their legal remedies, they also moved closer to the gallows. When the Supreme Court upheld the death penalty of these convicts in 2017, it invoked the doctrine of โcollective conscienceโ. In its judgment (Mukesh and Anr. V. State for NCT of Delhi and Ors.),…
The notion that an artwork by an artist cannot have a specific monetary value is far too often used against artists in many parts of the world. Conveniently, the idea that one cannot put a price tag on an artwork is employed to justify what cannot be termed as anything else but plain and blatantly…
Thereโs a strange dynamic to the architecture of hotels in Kashmir that have existed during these times of siege since the last few decades. Today, as I walked through the barbed wires boldly glistening in the faint sunlight of an unbecoming winter, I noticed that most of them, or least of all the ones I…