Kashmir

How a unique language survives in Kashmir’s tiny Burusho community

Despite being a small population, the Burusho community has been able to preserve their language through intergenerational communication and by prioritising their mother tongue over other languages in Kashmir

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

Will a new multiplex revive Kashmir’s cinema culture?

India-administered Kashmir opened its first multiplex in September 2022 after nearly three decades

What Southasia read in 2022

Book recommendations from a year of reading by Southasian writers, poets, translators and journalists

| Jan 06, 2023

Protests in Swat Valley, Kashmiri journalists barred from travel, ‘Trijya’ and more.

Southasiasphere episode 21: Updates and analysis from around the region.

| Nov 04, 2022

Every vote counts in Kashmir

Revised voting rights would mean further disempowerment for locals.

| Oct 11, 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

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