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Even if all the books were burned that memory still survives.” 0.900

👤 Naeem Akhtar 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Kashmir , History

Simplified: Naeem Akhtar said even if all books were burned Kashmir's memory still survives.

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1 month ago
“By denying access to him, our youth are led up the wrong path where legal argument and civilized debate is at a discount.” 0.800

👤 Naeem Akhtar 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Kashmir

Simplified: Naeem Akhtar said denying access to A. G. Noorani leads youth up the wrong path.

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1 month ago
He also believes the ban cannot succeed in erasing a history now viewed as inconvenient by the state: “In any case Kashmir is all about collective memory of a centuries-long struggle for identity and... 0.900

👤 Naeem Akhtar 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Kashmir , History

Simplified: Naeem Akhtar believes the ban cannot erase Kashmir's collective memory of a centuries-long struggle.

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1 month ago
The amount of scholarship he’s produced should be a source of pride for any country,” Akhtar said, commenting on the ban. 0.800

👤 Naeem Akhtar 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Kashmir

Simplified: Naeem Akhtar said A. G. Noorani's scholarship should be a source of pride for any country.

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“A. G. Noorani is the most authentic scholar and exponent of Kashmir’s post-independence history. 0.800

👤 Naeem Akhtar 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Kashmir , History

Simplified: Naeem Akhtar said A. G. Noorani is the most authentic scholar of Kashmir's post-independence history.

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1 month ago
Kashmir’s former education minister, Naeem Akhtar argued that such a ban would criminalize genuine scholarship, implying that the ban would push people to consume “third-rate propaganda” as a window t... 0.900

👤 Naeem Akhtar 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Kashmir

Simplified: Naeem Akhtar argued the ban would criminalize scholarship pushing people to consume propaganda.

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1 month ago
“The banning of the books is therefore nothing surprising but an extension of measures that are very familiar and well known.” 0.800

👤 A Kashmiri historian and academic 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Kashmir

Simplified: A scholar said the banning of books is an extension of familiar measures.

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1 month ago
Right after the order was received by the police, uniformed men began raiding bookstores across several parts of Kashmir to seize these books, the possession of which now breaks several sections of th... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Kashmir , Legal

Simplified: Police raided bookstores in Kashmir to seize banned books violating the Indian Penal Code.

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1 month ago
“Those scholars and historians who have questioned this have faced severe consequences,” he concluded. 0.800

👤 A Kashmiri historian and academic 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Kashmir

Simplified: A scholar said scholars questioning state-backed celebrations have faced severe consequences.

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1 month ago
Kashmiri academics feel that the banning of books is anything out of the ordinary. 0.800

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Kashmir

Simplified: Kashmiri academics feel the banning of books is not out of the ordinary.

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The scholar added that state-backed celebrations of Kashmiri culture were all a façade, calling out the center for facilitating Sufi narratives that suited its politics and policies. 0.800

👤 A Kashmiri historian and academic 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Kashmir

Simplified: A scholar said state-backed celebrations of Kashmiri culture are a façade facilitating Sufi narratives.

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1 month ago
“By banning books that emerge from a Critical Kashmir Studies perspective – [books] that document enforced disappearances, gendered resistance, mass graves, and the architecture of military occupation... 0.900

👤 Zia 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Kashmir

Simplified: Zia said the state seeks to sever Kashmiris from their histories by banning books documenting enforced disappearances.

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1 month ago
This move reflects a larger pattern that has been unfolding in Kashmir, where knowledge that challenges and unsettles the statist narrative is deemed dangerous,” Zia explained. 0.900

👤 Zia 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Kashmir

Simplified: Zia said the move reflects a pattern in Kashmir where knowledge challenging the statist narrative is deemed dangerous.

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1 month ago
Zia believes that the Indian state has a hunger for control, which is not satiated just through militarization and surveillance, but also in the symbolic and discursive realm. 0.900

👤 Zia 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Kashmir

Simplified: Zia believes the Indian state has a hunger for control beyond militarization and surveillance.

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1 month ago
“What is being criminalized here is history, memory, lived realities, and truth-telling. 0.900

👤 Zia 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Kashmir

Simplified: Zia said history memory lived realities and truth-telling are being criminalized.

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Zia perceives the ban as an attempt to erase the narratives, testimonies, and experiences of Kashmiris. 0.900

👤 Zia 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Kashmir

Simplified: Zia perceives the ban as an attempt to erase Kashmiri narratives testimonies and experiences.

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1 month ago
The book follows mothers and “half-widows” – women whose husbands have disappeared – highlighting their activism as they search for missing loved ones and challenge the government’s enforced disappear... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Kashmir

Simplified: "Resisting Disappearance" follows mothers and half-widows highlighting their activism against enforced disappearances.

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Her work “Resisting Disappearance” is an ethnographic study that emerged from Zia’s decade-long engagement with the Association of the Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) in Kashmir. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Kashmir

Simplified: Zia's work "Resisting Disappearance" is an ethnographic study from her engagement with APDP in Kashmir.

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1 month ago
While the government may succeed in creating a state of panic, confusion, and fear within Kashmir, it will not succeed in erasing this history,” she told The Diplomat. 0.900

👤 Kanjwal 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Kashmir

Simplified: Kanjwal said the government may create panic in Kashmir but will not erase its history.

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1 month ago
“The state officials think that by the ban, Kashmiris will miraculously forget that they have a history and a freedom struggle. 0.800

👤 Kanjwal 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Kashmir

Simplified: State officials think the ban will make Kashmiris forget their history and freedom struggle.

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1 month ago