Tag: Homeland

(Kashmir Rechords' Response) There is something uneasy about history being compressed into a punchline—especially when that history involves the Kashmiri Pandit resistance, a story of blood, exile and silent resilience Samay Raina, a gifted comedian of a new India, recently stepped into that uneasy terrain. His remark—that Kashmiri Pandits “only fight when the fight is fair”—was perhaps intended to provoke thought, maybe even empathy. Instead, it...

(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) At a time when Dogri lived in the voices of its people but not in the pages of serious scholarship, when its own custodians failed to document it for the world, a young woman from faraway Japan stepped in to do what many closer home did not. Her name was Noriko Mayeda. In the early 1960s, she arrived not as a tourist, but as...