The ‘Israel Model’: The Fragile Paradise of Kashmir Faces An Existential Threat

The ‘Israel Model’: The Fragile Paradise of Kashmir Faces An Existential Threat

On 23 November, India’s consul general in New York, Sandeep Chakravorty celebrated the achievements of the state of Israel in establishing political and cultural hegemony in historic Palestine, and called for a replication of the “Israel model” in Kashmir. It is outrageous that an Indian political representative would endorse an illegal settler-colonial project in Kashmir and look…

Bereft Of Soft Power, India Stands Diminished In Hindu Kush And Central Asia

Bereft Of Soft Power, India Stands Diminished In Hindu Kush And Central Asia

The dichotomy between the regime policy and public opinion is nowhere near as sharp as in the world of diplomacy. And nowhere in the contemporary situation is this maxim so sharply visible as in the dalliance of the West Asian oligarchies with Israel. The romance began at least a decade ago — perhaps, more —…

India’s Blockade of Kashmir: 100 Days In, The World’s Silence Is Deafening

India’s Blockade of Kashmir: 100 Days In, The World’s Silence Is Deafening

At the end of October India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, travelled to Saudi Arabia to hold bilateral talks between the two nations.  According to press reports, the topic of Kashmir and India’s move in August to abrogate the region’s semi-autonomous status and impose a communication blockade did not even make it as a topic of discussion. “The two sides…

Modi’s Assault on Kashmir and the Indian Working Class

Modi’s Assault on Kashmir and the Indian Working Class

5 November 2019 marks exactly three months since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his henchman Home Minister Amit Shah and a cabal of senior military and intelligence officers mounted a constitutional coup against Jammu and Kashmir. By executive fiat, Modi and his Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government have stripped India’s only Muslim-majority state…

China Defended International Law By Condemning India’s Illegal Annexation Of Kashmir

China Defended International Law By Condemning India’s Illegal Annexation Of Kashmir

Western authorities and their media proxies regularly fearmonger that China is supposedly the greatest threat to the modern-day world order, but the People’s Republic completely debunked that fake news assertion after it proudly defended international law by once again condemning India’s annexation of Kashmir on the day that the latter “officially” “bifurcated” the UNSC-recognized disputed…