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A new cold war in Kashmir
2009-10-01 05:07:21

By Arundhati Roy

While we're still arguing about whether there's life after death, can we add another question to the cart? Is there life after democracy? What sort of life will it be? By "democracy" I don't mean democracy as an ideal or an aspiration. I mean the working model: Western liberal democracy, and its variants, such as they are.
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Arundhati Roy, Fareed Zakaria and others speak on Kashmir
2009-05-08 05:29:29

Arundhati Roy: India cannot survive weight of Kashmir

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Fareed Zakaria on Kashmir

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Liam Dalrymple on the Kashmiri Voice:

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Dr. Deepak Chopra says Kashmiris should decide:

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Jeffrey Sachs discusses Kashmir:

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Inside Prison: Udaimpur Jail
2009-04-02 05:45:06
SRINAGAR, India -- Middle East Times  Twice, I tried to see Farooq Ahmad Dar in Udaimpur, located on the outskirts of Srinagar city. The press secretary of the JKLF, Wajahat Qureishi, promised a meeting with Dar, but it was never the right time. "I don't want you to be a suspect," he says, "Maybe another time."  When Farooq was briefly released from Udaimpur jail, he sent me an email earlier this year to tell me he would be arrested the following day. On Jan. 22, 2008 Dar wrote:

"The draconian P.S.A. [Public Safety Act] which was slapped against me was quashed by Jammu & Kashmir High Court and ordered in its verdict to release me [Farooq] as well as Nanaji [JKLF leader] from jail forthwith.>
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President Obama : Kashmiris need your Help
2009-02-05 05:16:09
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Emaciating economy and colonial control
2008-11-03 05:00:00

Farooq Siddiqi
By plundering the resources of Kashmir, India is trying to deepen her political control in the state of Jammu and Kashmir
The demand of Independent Kashmir is based on the political, social, cultural and economical reasons for the betterment of citizenry of Kashmir. It is also based on preserving the religious ethos that Kashmir has inherited since the advent of Islam in the Valley of Kashmir. Human being of present time has ushered in an era of progress in its political, economical, social fields. But this progress has impinged upon his social and cultural reservoir if conscious and consistent efforts are not made to preserve it.

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