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In this essay Qazi Shibli and Sajad Hameed look at the latest eviction drives in Indian controlled Kashmir. While claiming to retrieve encroached state land, the Union Territory administration is de facto illegally erasing years of land reform. Both from a historical and a legal perspective, the evictions appear as the latest episode of the ... Read more
This essay focuses on the custodial violence endured by a rural youth in Kashmir booked under the draconian Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978 in the hands of the Indian administration. Rupsa Dey explores the economic burden, the traumatic consequences of the Act and the brutality of the Special Operations Groups that enforce these ... Read more