Mehak Jamal
@mehakjamal
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Filmmaker, Author, Kaesher Koor Kashmir | Bombay 'Lōal Kashmir' January 2025 @HarperCollinsIN @AsiaSpeaks Fellow 2022 @SrishtiArtDes Film Alum 2016 She/Her
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Joined April 2009
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Immerse yourself in the poignant soul of Kashmir with #LoalKashmir by @mehakjamal. A compilation of sixteen true-life stories, this book weaves the delicate threads of love, longing, and loss through the eyes of its inhabitants amidst enduring conflicts. Dive into these moving
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.@mehakjamal collects voices that speak of love in all its plural forms. LOAL KASHMIR cracks open a different register of Kashmir where it is shown as a place of care, humour, teenage crushes, and yearning. By Shivani Patel
thechakkar.com
Mehak Jamal’s Loal Kashmir (2025) is a witness, a tender archive of what it means to love in a region of conflict—how intimacy reshapes itself around checkpoints, how longing endures without signal...
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Stitching Love Stories from a Torn Land: @mehakjamal’s LOAL KASHMIR’s is an archive of what it means to love in a region of conflict, how longing endures without signal bars, how the heart insists on ordinary joys in extraordinary times. ✍🏾Shivani Patel https://t.co/NgwdySTZXF
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‘Dapaan is not just a book about Kashmir’s conflict — it is a testament to the stubborn endurance of memory.’ Read @mehakjamal’s review of @p_semolina’s Dapaan for @the_hindu here: https://t.co/btnDjmQb24
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Book review: Ipsita Chakravarty gathers stories from places in Kashmir before they are erased. @mehakjamal writes: https://t.co/XuczD6yvW2
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Hear from our alumni about the program! Mehak Jamal @mehakjamal (SAS 2022) was mentored by Rahul Bhatia. Loal Kashmir, her book of stories about love, longing, and loss from a region that has endured decades of conflict, was published by @HarperCollinsIN in 2025.
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Good morning to Raghav Juyal and Raghav Juyal alone #Badsofbollywood
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The Kashmir Notebook, a special @frontline_india broadcast with @GowharGeelani || Episode 3 | Interview Author @mehakjamal
https://t.co/eh3RPZmRuJ
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Presenting the Crossword Book Awards 2025 Jury Longlist for Non-fiction. Jury: @mandira_nayar @MilanV , Satish Padmanabhan Which book are you rooting for? @harpercollinsin
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We’re delighted to announce that several of our titles have been longlisted for @crossword_book Awards: Jury Awards Longlist 2025! Congratulations to the authors behind these remarkable books: Ratan Tata by Thomas Mathew The Boy with a Hundred Questions by Nalini Ramachandran
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Thrilled to see @mehakjamal’s debut non-fiction, ‘Lōal Kashmir: Love and Longing in a Torn Land’ making it to the longlist for the Crossword Book Awards 2025! Congratulations, Mehak! @crossword_book @hemalisodhi @rsengupta2003
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The wait is over! ✨ Presenting the Jury Longlist for the Crossword Book Awards 2025! Which title are you rooting for? [Crossword Book Awards, Jury Awards, Longlist, Book awards, readers, Crossword Bookstores]
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J&K Students Association Writes to Maharashtra CM, Seeks Intervention Over Targeted Harassment of its Kashmiri Pandit Wing President #Pune #Maharashtra
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See you soon Pune 💜🍁 RSVP: https://t.co/a6HCPMmWjF
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"Dating itself is a curious phenomenon in Kashmir. I was sure that many Kashmiris would recognise themselves in the pages of Lōal Kashmir, and I wasn't disappointed" Author @mehakjamal in conversation with @attanomy
https://t.co/Nhx8JCa2my
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"As Kashmiris, there is always anger for what has been denied to us, but there is also the resilience and understanding to talk truth to power, so that no one can deny what has happened in Kashmir" @mehakjamal in conversation with @attanomy
https://t.co/Nhx8JC9ux0
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‘To make them undeniable’: Why @mehakjamal wrote stories of romantic love set in #Kashmir
https://t.co/2lFFKsNENI via @scroll_in
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‘It is cathartic to be able to speak out loud and document it, for in many cases, historically this has not been possible,’ added the author of ‘Lōal Kashmir’.
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I spoke with author @mehakjamal attempting to address the need, the tenderness and the unsayable spaces that her book ‘Lōal Kashmir’ so beautifully brings to light. https://t.co/Jsp4Gtmwhw
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‘It is cathartic to be able to speak out loud and document it, for in many cases, historically this has not been possible,’ added the author of ‘Lōal Kashmir’.
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For my story, I spoke to banned authors Sumantra Bose, @AnuradhaBhasin_, Hafsa Kanjwal, and @aziakashmir, who said the aim was to “suppress information about Kashmir.” Instead, the move has amplified the works it sought to “silence”. https://t.co/yUgYtLY1xa via @theprintindia
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At the orders of L-G Manoj Sinha, J&K home dept through a notification dated 5 August imposed blanket ban on 25 books it said were propagating ‘false narrative and secessionism’.
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I also spoke to @mehakjamal who is among the new wave of Kashmiri voices that began gaining prominence in the post-abrogation period. She called writing books an exercise “in not forgetting.”
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