Category Archives: kashmir

Kashmiri Pandit woman wins panchayat poll | The Hindu

Posted on May 11, 2011 by

Some news from Kashmir, front page in The Hindu today. – PJ The ongoing Panchayat elections in Jammu and Kashmir threw up an interesting result on Monday when a Kashmiri Pandit woman was elected Sarpanch in a Muslim-dominated village in … Continue reading →

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Three Day Festival for Binayak Sen | Hard News

Posted on April 10, 2011 by

A wonderful series of events in Delhi…which I missed because I was away! —————- A plethora of eminent artists, filmmakers,journalists, academicians, young students and activists got together for the three day event aptly christened ‘Justice on Trial’. It was a … Continue reading →

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Four Months the Kashmir Valley Will Never Forget: A Fact Finding Report

Posted on March 27, 2011 by

From Shivam Vij on kafila.org http://kafila.org/2011/03/26/four-months-the-kashmir-valley-will-never-forget-a-fact-finding-report/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kafila%2Ffeed2+%28Kafila%29 “A fact-finding team of VRINDA GROVER, RAVI HEMADRI, BELA BHATIA and SUKUMAR MURALIDHARAN release[d] their report, Four Months the Kashmir Valley Will Never Forget at a press conference in [...] Delhi. You can download … Continue reading →

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A Million March in Kashmir?: Suvaid Yaseen « Kafila

Posted on March 19, 2011 by

More on Egypt and India…though in this case the significant difference is the radicalization of a specific oppressed group as opposed to the nation as a whole. Make sure you check out the photos and videos–like the one below —PJ … Continue reading →

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Defining Sedition in Arundhati Case

Posted on December 7, 2010 by

In an interesting Times of India piece, Manoj Mitta notes that the Delhi judge ordering the police to open a sedition case against Arundhati Roy completely ignored the Supreme Court’s ruling in the 196e Kedar Nath Singh v. the State … Continue reading →

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Sedition and the Indian Penal Code

Posted on November 30, 2010 by

As I’ve been discussing on this blog, Arundhati, Geelani and others have been charged for “sedition” under Section 124-A of the Indian Penal Code.  The language of the law is so incredibly broad that it can’t possible co-exist with the … Continue reading →

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Arundhati: Indict Nehru for Sedition, Too

Posted on November 29, 2010 by

Arundhati Roy’s response to being charged for sedition. 28 November 2010 “My reaction to today’s court order directing the Delhi Police to file an FIR against me for waging war against the state: Perhaps they should posthumously file a charge … Continue reading →

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Delhi Police Charge Arundhati, Geelani for Sedition

Posted on November 29, 2010 by

Sedition Case Registered Against Arundhati Roy, Geelani Press Trust of India | 29 November 2010 “New Delhi: Writer Arundhati Roy, Hurriyat hawk Syed Ali Shah Geelani and others were on Monday booked on charges of sedition by Delhi Police for … Continue reading →

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“Azadi” and the Rights of Nations to Self-Determination

Posted on November 15, 2010 by

“Dilemmas of ‘Right of Nation to Self-Determination’” Rohini Hensman | kafila.org 13 November 2010 “The hectic discussion over the Kashmir meeting in Delhi in October entitled ‘Azadi – The Only Way’ has made it urgent to revisit the debate between … Continue reading →

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Arundhati: Kashmir’s Fruits of Discord

Posted on November 9, 2010 by

Kashmir’s Fruits of Discord By Arundhati Roy November 9 | The New York Times “A WEEK before he was elected in 2008, President Obama said that solving the dispute over Kashmir’s struggle for self-determination — which has led to three … Continue reading →

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