'We will disfigure your face in a way that you will be unrecognisable'

Many in Kashmir know the name as a talisman, the kind that security forces brandish when they periodically feel its time to square their books...

Is the antidote to 'silence' more silence, or greater discussion and louder noise? As Kashmir's first ever literature festival remains still-born, there are more questions than answers

By the logic of the Indian state, India is free and Kashmir is a part of India, ergo, Kashmir too, must be free. But Sanjay Kak’s documentary provides visual attestation for something diametrically opposed to this logic: the reality of occupati

"Although we do not wish to pre-judge any specific complicity in the attack on Prof. Geelani at this stage, we strongly feel that the involvement of the Delhi Police itself, especially its Special Branch, in the crime can not be ruled out"

Censorship would like to shut down not mouths, but minds. Censorship would like to contain not just the production of works of art and works of knowledge, but the very emotional and intellectual impulses that go into such production. This is cause fo

"Arundhati Roy & Criminal Contempt of the Supreme Court of India" -- a summation