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Why We Rebels (with Lyrics) by MC Kash
The Kashmir walla brings you the Kashmir’s revolutionary rapper, MC Kash’s latest song “Why We Rebels” with Lyrics. The song has a warning, “Parental discretion is advised.” Lyrics Hook: They gave us blood and hate Then wondered why we all are rebels In the Land of Saints each man raised is called a rebel Verse1: I come from the land of bloody crackdowns where silhoettes of life rush to the playgrounds ["you sit your ass down, and don't make a sound take off that … Read entire article »
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Young Cartoonist Seeks To Revive Kashmir’s Artistic Heritage
By Sarju Kaul | Age Correspondent Kashmiri cartoonist and artist Malik Sajad, who started working as political cartoonist for Great Kashmir newspaper in Srinagar since he was 14 years old, is keen to revive the lost forms of art and culture of the Valley. The 24-year-old, with the face of a teenager, is studying in London for his masters’ degree in image and communication at the prestigious Goldsmiths College, where Indian graphic novelist Sarnath Banerjee was a … Read entire article »
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An open letter on the ‘Harud’ literary festival
A literary festival, by definition, is an event that celebrates the free flow of ideas and opinions. It not only assumes a freedom from fear. It demands a certain independence of mind and spirit. To hold it in a context where some basic fundamental rights are markedly absent, indeed, denied to the population, is to commit a travesty. In fact, as literary and artistic festivals held elsewhere, Israel and Sri Lanka for example, show, such events are sometimes used to falsely assert the existence of basic freedoms, even as they are denied to larger sections of the population. In Kashmir, with its history of intense repression and brutality, markedly so in the last two decades, a context where deaths in custody, torture, rape, disappearances, curbs and assaults on the press and … Read entire article »
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Srinagar Is Not Kashmir:Mirza Waheed
By Iymon Ganaie | Photos by Bisma Tenzu Baramulla, July 2: “We had functions in Srinagar but Srinagar is not Kashmir. Baramulla, Sopore, Kupwara is.” With these words Kashmiri writer, Mirza Waheed, started the reading of his debut novel, The Collaborator at Government Degree College, Baramulla. A small but enthusiastic audience of students and faculty attended the reading of journalist turned writer Mirza, who read some paragraphs from his novel. The reading started with the first chapter … Read entire article »
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Full Coverage of Launch of the Book ‘Until My Freedom Has Come’
By Fahad Shah | Camera by Tamim Baba The Kashmir Walla presents the full coverage of the launch of the book Until My Freedom Has Come: The New Intifada in Kashmir edited by noted filmmaker, Sanjay Kak. The event was at Hotel Grand Mumtaz, Srinagar, Kashmir on June 12, 2011 from 3 pm to 5 pm. The panelists who spoke were the author of the novel, The Collaborator , Mirza Waheed, editor of the book, Sanjay … Read entire article »
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Nacer Khemir: The Desert Trilogy
An overwhelming cinematic experience where the aesthetic and the political blend into each other is rare. While the Third Cinema (not to be confused with third world cinema) took upon itself to reject the usual Hollywood ideological propaganda and instead create a realistic counter hegemonic cinema, it remained a difficult task to retain the aesthetic of the cinematic imagination while being overtly political. In this context, cinema of Tunisian director Nacer Khemir escapes the definition … Read entire article »
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