Kashmir

India’s slow-burn affair with Israel heats up
Azad Essa’s 'Hostile Homelands' explores the ideological convergence of Hindutva and Zionism, and the consequences for Kashmir and Palestine – but there is much more driving India and Israel’s deepening ties
Rohan Venkat | Dec 01, 2023

Kashmir’s religious institutions are the Modi government’s latest battlefront
The Modi government and the BJP’s systematic push for control over mosques and madrassas in India-administered Kashmir is spilling over into communal conduct by the Indian armed forces
Maknoon Wani | Oct 05, 2023

Hopes and fears on the LoC after two years of ceasefire
A stable ceasefire along the Line of Control between India and Pakistan has given residents a chance at normal life—but threats of an end to the peace persist
Auqib Javeed | Jun 07, 2023

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
Nazrah Khan and Darash Dawood | Feb 01, 2023

Protests in Gwadar, a BBC documentary on Modi, Tamil fiction in translation and more
January - Updates and analysis from around the region
The Editors | Jan 25, 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.
Maknoon Wani | 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
Irfan Mehraj and Khalid Khan | Jan 18, 2023

What Southasia read in 2022
Book recommendations from a year of reading by Southasian writers, poets, translators and journalists
The Editors | 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.
The Editors | Nov 04, 2022

Every vote counts in Kashmir
Revised voting rights would mean further disempowerment for locals.
Maknoon Wani | Oct 11, 2022
