Resistance Literature: University of Kashmir removes works of acclaimed Kashmiri writers from English literature courses

University of Kashmir removes works of acclaimed Kashmiri writers from English literature courses

Works of globally acclaimed Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali and prominent journalist and writer Basharat Peer have been removed from the curriculum of the University of Kashmir ostensibly as a result of the New Education Policy (NEP). The University of Kashmir used to teach three of Shahid Ali’s poems—‘Postcard from Kashmir’, ‘In Arabic’, and ‘The Last Saffron’ to MA students. Peer’s Curfewed Night was also part of the same course. Two poems of Shahid Ali—‘Postcard from Kashmir’ and the ‘Wolf’s Postscript’— were also taught in the BA course at the…

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Kashmiris who received international recognition for their work in Journalism, Literature and Human Rights

The announcement by Dana Canedy, the administrator of the Pulitzer prizes came late Monday via her youtube stream, being deferred by two weeks due to the COVD-19 crises. Two Kashmiri and one Jammu based journalists had bagged the 2020 Pulitzer for ‘the striking’ images of life in Kashmir after the scrapping of Article 370 which granted Kashmir autonomy. The news was broken online by another journalist who tweeted “Pulitzer is home”, and instantly, the tweet became viral. It was retweeted some hundred times and liked a few thousand times by…

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