Maknoon Wani
Maknoon Wani is a journalist and academic mentor and an incoming graduate student at Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. Maknoon has extensively covered the Kashmir conflict, internet shutdowns, and anti-minority hate speech in India. His interest also lies in technology policy and internet governance.
BJP’s land reforms and the shifting political landscape in Kashmir
The BJP’s approach to reshaping Jammu and Kashmir’s political legacy and governance model is based on exclusionary measures that have raised concerns about the erasure of Kashmiris from the region’s history and identity
Apr 21, 2023
What’s really behind Jammu and Kashmir’s new Family ID?
Kashmiris fear the scheme is another tool for surveillance and collective punishment by the Indian state.
Jan 23, 2023
Every vote counts in Kashmir
Revised voting rights would mean further disempowerment for locals.
Oct 11, 2022
The second wave of migration
The continued woes of Kashmiri Pandits.
Aug 17, 2022
Selective truths
Kashmiri reception to the controversial film ‘The Kashmir Files’.
Jun 10, 2022
New developments in ‘New Kashmir’
Delimitation and the politics of coercion in Kashmir.
Apr 01, 2022
Kashmir and the rise of settler colonialism
The political and economic exploitation of militarily occupied J & K.
Sep 01, 2020
Latest Articles
Manipur’s conflict has harsh lessons for all of India’s Northeast
Rampant ethnic chauvinism of the kind that has shattered Manipur’s civil society is ingrained in communities across the Northeast
How Southasia and Oman intertwined
In ‘Sovereigns of the Sea’, the histories of Omani sultans in the age of empire speak to the interconnectedness of Southasia, West Asia and East Africa
G20 summit in Delhi, new allegations on the Easter Sunday bombings, the return of Nawaz Sharif and more
September 2023 - Updates and analysis from around the region
Crisis in India’s bread basket
How agriculture, capital and corporate investment have reshaped Indian Punjab, and brought about its current precarity
