Placing a plaque with India’s national emblem at the revered Hazratbal Dargah keeps Kashmir on edge, with arrests, political statements, and clerical warnings turning a renovation into a battle over f ...
The road to the present Hazratbal crisis was paved in 2003 when the Waqf Board was created to centralise authority in the name of weeding out corruption.
The placing of the Ashoka emblem in Hazratbal is another step in the long process of appropriating Kashmiri spaces, silencing Kashmiri voices, and redefining Kashmiri symbols.
