Same playbook. The RSS has tried since 1980s to use Ladakh against Kashmir’s movement, persistently promising them pie in the sky, only to consolidate New Delhi’s power over the people. Only an inter-regional solidarity in the historic state can offer a check on imperial power.

“The Indian state wants complete narrative control over Kashmir, not just on the ground through militarisation and surveillance, but also in the symbolic and discursive realm.” - Ather Zia https://t.co/RFPSyJd0hZ

🤔 Where else have seen this authoritarian control over thought and literature? The Berlin bonfire of books in May 1933…

Never heard of “MHA” withdrawing any battalions. Where do they keep going? Is there any space left even?

A piece I wrote in summer 2020, since “geopolitics” has flared up once more. https://t.co/cgZV4POUru

Lots of good stuff recently on MAKC. We will have at least 1 new audio podcast up this week & hopefully a livestream on Thursday. In the meantime catch up on recent episodes with @MomodouTaal, @mjunaidr, @kamaufranklin, @n_th_n_, @s_phia_ & @ammaralijan https://t.co/bH7rpne6Vm

The info war Indian rightwing is waging is hurting ordinary Indian people who are being denied access to truth and reality. This should stop. For the sake of the world. War has no winners and losers, only those who are dead, damaged and scarred, and those who make profit.

Thursday at 10 AM EDT we'll speak with Mohamad Junaid (@mjunaidr) about Kashmir as a prism for understanding politics on the Indian subcontinent & provide a historical backdrop to recent events in the region, including India's bombing of Kashmir yesterday https://t.co/0RVhJ22Ayr

This is a war entirely conjured up in Indian TV news rooms who sell hate for viewership. If it escalates, the world will not be safe. With no one to defend them, Kashmiris will be its first and most vulnerable victims. Please leave Kashmir alone. Let us live.

Journalism of fear which can’t write the truth about who the “gunmen” were, but leaves hints only Kashmiris know. Others should learn the code to understand the news from Kashmir.

Collective punishment just to appear tough is not a sign of strength but of pettiness. South Asia needs peace and wisdom to solve its enormous problems. That will begin with accepting the logical and ethical fact that “Kashmir belongs to the people of Kashmir.”

#PahalgamAttack: In this video, Kashmiri students in Dera Bassi, Chandigarh allege a brutal midnight attack with sharp weapons inside their hostel. Campus security did nothing, and Punjab Police failed to respond. https://t.co/YCqi8d1Fl3

#PahalgamAttack: In this video, Hindu Raksha Dal openly threatens Kashmiri Muslims in Uttarakhand, ordering them to leave the state by 10 AM tomorrow.

#Breaking: Himachal Pradesh: Kashmiri students at Arni University are under attack — harassed, abused, & labelled ‘terrorists’ by right-wing mobs. Hostel doors broken, students forced to flee. This targeted hate must end: J&K Students Association statement.

#PahalgamAttack – We’re receiving distress calls from Kashmiri students in Prayagraj, UP—being forced to vacate by landlords citing “security concerns”. Some have already left under pressure. We urge the government to act: J&K Students Association statement.

Army officers testify: Two generals oversaw torture and murder of civilians in J&K Watch now👉 https://t.co/nIVyclQtVY Report by @jatinder_tur #JammuAndKashmir #IndianArmy

J&K Admin plans Kashmir Valley's largest engineering college: approx. 600 acres! That is double University College Dublin, Europe's largest urban campuses, and triple Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But why this immense scale for an engineering college?

If the “public” is no longer the native population, but a different one, then this “development”, which dispossesses land, is called settler colonialism.

30 “townships”! For whom? Every act of “development” is an act of dispossession.

Apparently the books were attempting to escape. Wondering whether this should be in the dystopia column or the absurd one?