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Four visions for the return of Kashmiri Pandits to Kashmir Valley. Image is representational.
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Four Visions of Return: Rebuilding Kashmir or Redrawing Divides?

From Sheikh Abdullah's Resettlement Bill to Panun Kashmir, from post-2019 policies to a shared future rooted in reconciliation, competing ideas of return reveal a deeper question: what kind of Kashmir ...
By
Dr Mubeen Ahmed Shah
4 min read
A view of Global Kashmir Diaspora members felicitating Prof Neerja Mattoo on the sidelines of a conclave in Srinagar, Kashmir, in June 2026.
Comment Articles

Kashmiri Pandit Crisis Deserves Truth & Justice More Than a Label

More than three decades after being driven from the Valley, Pandits remain displaced and are caught between competing nationalisms that invoke their suffering without resolving it; they need accountab ...
By
Dr Abdul Ahad
8 min read
The dancing girl of Mohenjo-daro in three views, with close-ups of face, choker and bangles, and next to a dancing girl from Jaipur around 1900. John Marshall writes of this figure: "the arms and legs . . . are adorned with armlets, bangles, and anklets. These ornaments may sometimes have been made of metal, but in all probability the majority of them were shell. The custom of wearing so many shell bracelets as almost to conceal the whole of the forearm is very common in India at the present day."
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Nude Statue and the Fig Leaf Republic

Mohenjo-Daro Dancing Girl row exposes BJP’s selective morality, hypocrisy, and the art of the cover-up
By
Anuradha Bhasin
6 min read
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