symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  A short statement of the issues involved

• CHANGING THE NARRATIVE
  Dileep Padgaonkar, former Editor, 'The Times of India'; was the Chairman of the Group of Interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir; now lives in Pune

• INVENTING PEACE IN KASHMIR
  Shiv Visvanathan, Professor, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat; Research Associate, Compost Heap

• IT HAPPENS ONLY IN INDIA
  Ashvin Kumar, documentary film-maker, Goa 

• VOCABULARY OF VIOLENCE
  Manisha Gangahar, Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla

• THE MEMORY OF A CENSORED STORY
  Basharat Peer, writer and journalist, Delhi

• EXTRACT
  Our Moon Has Blood Clots, Rahul Pandita, author and Associate Editor, 'Open', Delhi

• KASHMIR: MEMORIES, DREAMS, REFLECTIONS
  Jyotsna Singh, Founder-Director of the Dara Shikoh Centre for the Arts, Srinagar

• FOCUS ON THE ESSENTIALS
  Sabbah Haji, Director, Haji Public School, Breswana, Doda, J&K

• KASHMIR'S YOUTH BULGE
  Shujaat Bukhari, senior journalist; currently Editor in Chief, 'Rising Kashmir', Srinagar

• THE MUSLIM WOMAN'S STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE
  Inshah Malik, PhD scholar, Centre for Comparative Politics and Political Theory, SIS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

• A RIVER AND A TURBINE
  Zubair A. Dar, journalist, and researcher on water policy and river basin management, Rangar, Budgam, J&K

• THE FORGOTTEN POONCH UPRISING OF 1947
  Christopher Snedden, academic and writer, Canberra

• THE IDEA OF INDIA AND KASHMIR
  Nitasha Kaul, writer, novelist and independent scholar, London

• COMMENT
  Received from Manisha Gangahar, Fellow, IIAS, Shimla, C.P. Bhambhri, Professor Emeritus, JNU, Delhi, Ruth Vanita, Professor, Liberal Studies, University of Montana, Missoula and Kishore Singh, columnist and author, Delhi

• BOOKS
  Reviewed by Harsh Sethi

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