Tag: Kashmir Challenges


  • David Barsamian: The legacy of partition lives on in the subcontinent with wars and an arms race and the ever-vexing issue of Kashmir. Eqbal Ahmad: Three wars: 1948, 1965 and then again in 1971-72. Continued conflict over Kashmir, which is costing the Kashmiri people enormously. It’s heartbreaking what their costs are and nobody notices. Continued…

  • Introduction: Eqbal Ahmad was born in the village of Irki in Bihar in 1933.During his early childhood his father was murdered as a result of a land dispute. His father was involved in India’s pre-independence nationalist movement and in the gifting of lands. During the partition of India in 1947, Eqbal Ahmad and his elder…