Anuradha Bhasin
@anuradhabhasin.bsky.social
Journalist, Author: A Dismantled State: Untold Story of Kashmir After 370.
Managing Editor, Kashmir Times
Managing Editor, Kashmir Times
Honoured that Kashmir Times figures in the list of 25 winners of Global Youth & News Media Awards 2025. The prestigious award is partnered by many internationally acclaimed organisations including IPI, Media Lab, ICFJ, API, European Journalism Centre & others.
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September 5, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Honoured that Kashmir Times figures in the list of 25 winners of Global Youth & News Media Awards 2025. The prestigious award is partnered by many internationally acclaimed organisations including IPI, Media Lab, ICFJ, API, European Journalism Centre & others.
www.globalyouthandnewsmediaprize.net
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Quick succession of cloudbursts and floods. There are important lessons to learn. Read this warning and what can be done.
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Cloudbursts in the Himalayas: Kishtwar Tragedy a Grim Warning
The tragic cloudburst in Kishtwar on August 14, 2025, during the Machail pilgrimage, underscores the growing threat of extreme weather events in the Himalayas. With 65 lives lost and hundreds affected...
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August 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Quick succession of cloudbursts and floods. There are important lessons to learn. Read this warning and what can be done.
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kashmirtimes.com/opinion/comm...
Did strikes inside Pakistan achieve objective of ending terrorism? Or did they bring war and international isolation ? What is the measure of 'success'? How were the 'killed terrorists'counted?
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On What Indices Do We Measure Operation Sindoor’s ‘Success’?
The only purpose the debate on Pahalgam attack, Operation Sindoor and the three-day escalation between India and Pakistan has achieved is to showcase that India is still a functioning democracy where ...
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August 2, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Did strikes inside Pakistan achieve objective of ending terrorism? Or did they bring war and international isolation ? What is the measure of 'success'? How were the 'killed terrorists'counted?
kashmirtimes.com/marginalia/o...
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True story of G K Reddy: journalist, editor, and India's man inside Pakistan, who held ministerial meetings, drafted propaganda—but quietly fled in a military plane, switched identities, and handed secrets to Nehru.
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Was Pak-administered Kashmir’s First Information Chief an Indian Spy?
True story of G K Reddy: journalist, editor, and India's man inside Pakistan, who held ministerial meetings, drafted propaganda—but quietly fled in a military plane, switched identities, and handed se...
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August 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
True story of G K Reddy: journalist, editor, and India's man inside Pakistan, who held ministerial meetings, drafted propaganda—but quietly fled in a military plane, switched identities, and handed secrets to Nehru.
kashmirtimes.com/opinion/comm...
kashmirtimes.com/opinion/comm...
Zahid Rafiq’s ‘The World With its Mouth Open’ is a powerful collection of stories in which personal blends with political, and desolation with wit, writes Freny Manecksha.
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Story telling in unsettled times
“…Stories that had not made it into the papers, the stories behind the stories, stories so sad, so funny, so true that there was no place for them in the papers.”
Deftly pre-empting the question of wh...
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August 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Zahid Rafiq’s ‘The World With its Mouth Open’ is a powerful collection of stories in which personal blends with political, and desolation with wit, writes Freny Manecksha.
@aunty303
kashmirtimes.com/culture/lite...
@aunty303
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Zahid Rafiq’s ‘The World With its Mouth Open’ is a powerful collection of stories in which personal blends with political, and desolation with wit, writes Freny Manecksha.
@aunty303
Story telling in unsettled times
@aunty303
Story telling in unsettled times
Kashmir Times
Kashmir Times is an independent news organization, supported by readers and concerned citizens. We publish in-depth coverage and analysis from Jammu & Kashmir, South Asia and rest of the world with fo...
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August 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Zahid Rafiq’s ‘The World With its Mouth Open’ is a powerful collection of stories in which personal blends with political, and desolation with wit, writes Freny Manecksha.
@aunty303
Story telling in unsettled times
@aunty303
Story telling in unsettled times
Since 2016, Umar’s days have settled into a rhythm. Mornings start late. “Kya dekhna hai jo jaldi uthoon?,“ he says, with half a chuckle laced with both sarcasm and jest.
In the Dark: How Kashmir's Pellet Gun Victims Navigate a World That Forgot Them
In the heart of Srinagar, U
In the Dark: How Kashmir's Pellet Gun Victims Navigate a World That Forgot Them
In the heart of Srinagar, U
Kashmir Times
Kashmir Times is an independent news organization, supported by readers and concerned citizens. We publish in-depth coverage and analysis from Jammu & Kashmir, South Asia and rest of the world with fo...
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May 31, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Since 2016, Umar’s days have settled into a rhythm. Mornings start late. “Kya dekhna hai jo jaldi uthoon?,“ he says, with half a chuckle laced with both sarcasm and jest.
In the Dark: How Kashmir's Pellet Gun Victims Navigate a World That Forgot Them
In the heart of Srinagar, U
In the Dark: How Kashmir's Pellet Gun Victims Navigate a World That Forgot Them
In the heart of Srinagar, U
Dissecting the complex terrain of violence, oppression, trauma and societal decay through the lens of Aamir Bashir’s award-winning film ‘Maagh: The Winter Within’ and conversations with him.Maagh: ‘Chill of oppression has seeped into our bones’ kashmirtimes.com/opinion/comm...
Maagh: ‘Chill of oppression has seeped into our bones’
Aamir Bashir's film 'Maagh: The Winter Within' poignantly captures the chilling reality of Kashmir's oppression. Through the story of Nargis and Manzoor, the film illustrates the pervasive impact of e...
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May 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Dissecting the complex terrain of violence, oppression, trauma and societal decay through the lens of Aamir Bashir’s award-winning film ‘Maagh: The Winter Within’ and conversations with him.Maagh: ‘Chill of oppression has seeped into our bones’ kashmirtimes.com/opinion/comm...
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🎙️ "I think Kashmiris are very resilient people... when given a space they will find creative ways to engage with the Indian state. But the Indian state needs to recognize that," says @anuradhabhasin.bsky.social #StateofSouthasia #Kashmir:
Anuradha Bhasin on Kashmir’s repeated calamities through the India-Pakistan conflict: State of Southasia #23
Since 22 April, when militants carried out a deadly attack in Pahalgam district killing 26 civilians – most of them Hindu tourists – Kashmir has faced one of it
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May 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM
🎙️ "I think Kashmiris are very resilient people... when given a space they will find creative ways to engage with the Indian state. But the Indian state needs to recognize that," says @anuradhabhasin.bsky.social #StateofSouthasia #Kashmir:
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🎙️Kashmiri Muslims have been the major victims of the gun from both sides – the militants and security forces – and yet have been alienated by India, says @anuradhabhasin.bsky.social #StateofSouthasia
Anuradha Bhasin on Kashmir’s repeated calamities through the India-Pakistan conflict: State of Southasia #23
Since 22 April, when militants carried out a deadly attack in Pahalgam district killing 26 civilians – most of them Hindu tourists – Kashmir has faced one of it
buff.ly
May 24, 2025 at 2:33 AM
🎙️Kashmiri Muslims have been the major victims of the gun from both sides – the militants and security forces – and yet have been alienated by India, says @anuradhabhasin.bsky.social #StateofSouthasia
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🎙️"The Indian state's crackdown on the Kashmiris in the aftermath of Pahalgam has been disproportionate... it appealed to the majoritarian Indian sentiments that became overwhelmingly anti-Kashmiri," says @anuradhabhasin.bsky.social #StateofSouthasia
Anuradha Bhasin on Kashmir’s repeated calamities through the India-Pakistan conflict: State of Southasia #23
Since 22 April, when militants carried out a deadly attack in Pahalgam district killing 26 civilians – most of them Hindu tourists – Kashmir has faced one of it
buff.ly
May 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
🎙️"The Indian state's crackdown on the Kashmiris in the aftermath of Pahalgam has been disproportionate... it appealed to the majoritarian Indian sentiments that became overwhelmingly anti-Kashmiri," says @anuradhabhasin.bsky.social #StateofSouthasia
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🎙️ "The people at the borders have lived with the harrowing reality of constantly being in the line of fire – of being cut off from all of J&K, of shelling, of homes destroyed, of casualties, of being victims of landmines," says @anuradhabhasin.bsky.social #Kashmir buff.ly/hMipIEL
May 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🎙️ "The people at the borders have lived with the harrowing reality of constantly being in the line of fire – of being cut off from all of J&K, of shelling, of homes destroyed, of casualties, of being victims of landmines," says @anuradhabhasin.bsky.social #Kashmir buff.ly/hMipIEL
Despite Pakistan’s vocal support for Kashmiri militants, the result has been decades of conflict with no liberation in sight. Balochistan must learn from Kashmir’s mistakes. Balochistan’s Independence Declaration: Echoes of Kashmir’s Failed Insurgency kashmirtimes.com/opinion/comm...
Balochistan’s Independence Declaration: Echoes of Kashmir’s Failed Insurgency
The declaration of the 'Democratic Republic of Balochistan' by London-based Baloch activists echoes the failed insurgency of Kashmir in the 1990s. Despite the parallels in their struggles for independ...
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May 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Despite Pakistan’s vocal support for Kashmiri militants, the result has been decades of conflict with no liberation in sight. Balochistan must learn from Kashmir’s mistakes. Balochistan’s Independence Declaration: Echoes of Kashmir’s Failed Insurgency kashmirtimes.com/opinion/comm...
In a land where ‘nobody remembers that you have reformed, but only your history’, many among those arrested under PSA post-Pahalgam attack were briefly detained years ago, some when they were minors.
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Teen Records, Old Facebook Posts Come to Haunt 90 Detained Under PSA
In the wake of the Pahalgam attack that resulted in 26 fatalities, authorities have detained over 90 individuals under the Public Safety Act (PSA), some based on past records from their adolescence. A...
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May 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
In a land where ‘nobody remembers that you have reformed, but only your history’, many among those arrested under PSA post-Pahalgam attack were briefly detained years ago, some when they were minors.
kashmirtimes.com/news/old-fca...
kashmirtimes.com/news/old-fca...
Navigating an existential crisis, refugees continue their desperate effort to assert their status as asylum seekers, not illegal migrants.
Amidst Increasing Crackdown, Rohingya Refugees in Jammu caught between arbitrary detentions and fears of deportation kashmirtimes.com/news/rohingy...
Amidst Increasing Crackdown, Rohingya Refugees in Jammu caught between arbitrary detentions and fears of deportation kashmirtimes.com/news/rohingy...
Amidst Increasing Crackdown, Rohingya Refugees in Jammu caught between arbitrary detentions and fears of deportation
Rohingya refugees in Jammu face increased crackdowns, including arbitrary detentions and fears of deportation. Gouramya, a refugee detained without charges, highlights the community's ongoing struggle...
kashmirtimes.com
May 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Navigating an existential crisis, refugees continue their desperate effort to assert their status as asylum seekers, not illegal migrants.
Amidst Increasing Crackdown, Rohingya Refugees in Jammu caught between arbitrary detentions and fears of deportation kashmirtimes.com/news/rohingy...
Amidst Increasing Crackdown, Rohingya Refugees in Jammu caught between arbitrary detentions and fears of deportation kashmirtimes.com/news/rohingy...
I speak on the Kashmir issue
🎙️#podcast episode: Kashmiri Muslims have been the major victims of the gun from both sides – the militants and security forces – and yet have been alienated by India, says @anuradhabhasin.bsky.social #StateofSouthasia
Anuradha Bhasin on Kashmir’s repeated calamities through the India-Pakistan conflict: State of Southasia #23
Since 22 April, when militants carried out a deadly attack in Pahalgam district killing 26 civilians – most of them Hindu tourists – Kashmir has faced one of it
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May 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I speak on the Kashmir issue
Understanding Kashmir. The larger picture behind three weeks of tensions.
🎙️ "I think Kashmiris are very resilient people... when given a space they will find creative ways to engage with the Indian state. But the Indian state needs to recognize that," says @anuradhabhasin.bsky.social #StateofSouthasia #Kashmir
Anuradha Bhasin on Kashmir’s repeated calamities through the India-Pakistan conflict: State of Southasia #21
Since 22 April, when militants carried out a deadly attack in Pahalgam district killing 26 civilians – most of them Hindu tourists – Kashmir has faced one of it
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May 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Understanding Kashmir. The larger picture behind three weeks of tensions.
Amid war frenzy, people on LoC in J&K appeal for peace. Watch:
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In The Line Of Fire: Villagers in Kashmir call for peace amid fear, war frenzy
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May 6, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Amid war frenzy, people on LoC in J&K appeal for peace. Watch:
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Wars are fought on bodies of people. As they clean and prepare bunkers for safety and stock-up supplies for long-term survival, border villagers appeal India-Pakistan to talk and not fight.
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People Along LoC in Kashmir Brace for a War They Don’t Want
In the picturesque yet tense town of Uri, Kashmir, residents brace for potential conflict between India and Pakistan. Despite the beauty surrounding them, fear permeates the air as families adopt surv...
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May 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Wars are fought on bodies of people. As they clean and prepare bunkers for safety and stock-up supplies for long-term survival, border villagers appeal India-Pakistan to talk and not fight.
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May 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
📍 #KashmirTerroristAttack: Houses demolished to deter #terrorism, but "families cannot be held responsible for individual guilts."
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"Though liberals should take whatever litigation wins they can, real resistance must take place in Congress, at government workplaces and in the streets." Succinctly put. The sooner you realise, the better.
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Opinion | Don’t count on the courts to save democracy
Giving courts the last word is part of what got us into this mess. It won’t get us out.
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March 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"Though liberals should take whatever litigation wins they can, real resistance must take place in Congress, at government workplaces and in the streets." Succinctly put. The sooner you realise, the better.
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All political groups legitimised J&K's flawed and motivated delimitation with their silence. They will create a blunder now by raking up a north-south divide. Delimitation, at this juncture, is a threat for all.
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On delimitation fears, some lessons from Jammu and Kashmir
Opponents of the exercise will do well to note that population will not be the only weapon in BJP’s arsenal for redrawing India’s electoral map.
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March 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
All political groups legitimised J&K's flawed and motivated delimitation with their silence. They will create a blunder now by raking up a north-south divide. Delimitation, at this juncture, is a threat for all.
www.newslaundry.com/2025/03/15/o...
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Who delivers the letters of the disappeared? In today's Kashmir, Agha Shahid's metaphors of silence — vanished homes, censored voices, unwritten letters - would be like documentation. Poignant!
The Country Without a Post Office: Agha Shahid Ali’s Lament for Kashmir kashmirtimes.com/opinion/comm...
The Country Without a Post Office: Agha Shahid Ali’s Lament for Kashmir kashmirtimes.com/opinion/comm...
The Country Without a Post Office: Agha Shahid Ali’s Lament for Kashmir
Agha Shahid Ali's poignant poetry captures the essence of Kashmir, a region mired in conflict and longing. Born in 1949, Ali's work bridges personal and political realms, reflecting the brutal reality...
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March 2, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Who delivers the letters of the disappeared? In today's Kashmir, Agha Shahid's metaphors of silence — vanished homes, censored voices, unwritten letters - would be like documentation. Poignant!
The Country Without a Post Office: Agha Shahid Ali’s Lament for Kashmir kashmirtimes.com/opinion/comm...
The Country Without a Post Office: Agha Shahid Ali’s Lament for Kashmir kashmirtimes.com/opinion/comm...
"The cricket team of Jail No: 3 in Delhi's Tihar jail had five Pakistani inmates, which led to it being unofficially dubbed the "Pakistani Team." Some interesting insights from India's largest prison.
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Tihar Jail and Pakistani Cricket Team
In an unusual cricket tournament held inside Delhi’s Tihar Jail, the famous cricket team of Jail No: 3 faced a significant setback when five key Pakistani inmates were transferred to a high-security w...
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March 2, 2025 at 2:39 AM
"The cricket team of Jail No: 3 in Delhi's Tihar jail had five Pakistani inmates, which led to it being unofficially dubbed the "Pakistani Team." Some interesting insights from India's largest prison.
kashmirtimes.com/opinion/comm...
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