Until My Freedom Has Come: The New Intifada in Kashmir

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Sanjay Kak
Haymarket Books, 2013 - History - 303 pages

The pieces in this volume voice the rage and helplessness sweeping through the Kashmir Valley while offering rare insights into the lives of those caught in the crossfire. This book is a timely collection of the most exciting writing that has recently emerged from within Kashmir, and about it.

Sanjay Kak is a documentary filmmaker whose work includes Jashn-e-Azadi (How We Celebrate Freedom, 2007), a feature-length film about Kashmir. He is based in New Delhi, India.

 

Contents

Challenging India
3
Diary of a Summer
17
What Are Kashmirs Stonepelters Saying to Us?
31
A Letter to an Unknown Indian
43
How I Became a Stonethrower for a Day
47
Curfewed in Kashmir Voices from the Valley
50
I See Kashmir from New Delhi
64
Kashmirs Abu Ghraib?
71
A Time for Freedom
132
Kashmirs Anonymous Graves Summon Darkest Days
148
The Wounds of Kashmir s Neverending War
153
The False God of Military Suppression
158
Languages of a Security State
169
Bub Bunkers and Beyond
176
A Victorious Campaign
179
A Place of Blood and Memory
188

An Interview with Masarat Alam Bhat
86
Masarat CD Creates Ripples
92
Respected Shobha Rani
94
Captive City
98
Captive City
99
I Protest
110
Kashmir Rapper Uses Rhymes to Protest Indian Rule
113
The Islamism Bogey in Kashmir
116
The Kashmir Intifada
120
A Place of Blood and Memory
189
Construction Nature and Response
213
Three Metaphors for the Present
229
Folding Kashmir into Indias Imagination
250
A Letter to Fellow Kashmiris
279
Timeline
289
Notes on Contributors
297
Acknowledgements
302
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Sanjay Kak is an independent documentary filmmaker whose recent work reflects his interests in ecology, alternatives and resistance politics. His films 'Jashn-e-Azadi' (How we celebrate freedom) (about the struggle for Azadi-freedom-in Kashmir), and 'Words on Water' (about the struggle against large dams in the Narmada valley in central India), have been widely screened both in India and abroad. 'Words on Water' (2003) won Best Long Film prize at the International Festival of Environmental Film & Video, Brazil. 'In the forest hangs a bridge' (1999) received the "Golden Lotus" for Best Documentary Film at the 1999 National Film Awards in India and the "Asian Gaze" Award at the Pusan Short Film Festival, Korea. He is based in New Delhi.

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