Until My Freedom Has Come: The New Intifada in KashmirSanjay Kak 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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