Modi’s Government Is Exploiting the Pandemic to Ramp up Repression in Kashmir

The people of Kashmir have been left badly exposed to COVID-19 by a state that spends lavishly on tools of repression while neglecting public health services. The Indian government is using the lockdown to extend its regime of surveillance and control.

09.24.2019

Mehdi Khawaja

Behind Modi’s Blackout in Kashmir

A Jacobin contributor in Kashmir interviewed dozens of ordinary Kashmiris in the midst of Modi’s brutal communications clampdown on the region. Despite the Indian government’s best efforts, Kashmiris’ demands for self-determination cannot stay invisible forever.

08.27.2019

Mehdi Khawaja

Once Upon a Time in … Kashmir

We journey to Indian-occupied Kashmir, where the cinemas have been turned into torture chambers.