Ajaz Ashraf, Freelance Journalist Profile

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Three Muslim writers and a colonel

5 days ago | mid-day.com | Ajaz Ashraf

(Clockwise from top left) Basharat Peer, journalist; Ali Khan Mahmudabad, academic. Pics/Wikimedia Commons; Colonel Sofiya Qureshi. Pic/PTI; Booker Prize-winning author Banu Mushtaq.
Channel to solution in Kashmir

1 week ago | mid-day.com | Ajaz Ashraf

A rainbow appears in the sky after heavy rainfall near the Line of Control in Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir, on May 24.
Questions on Indo-Pak clashes

2 weeks ago | origin.mid-day.com | Ajaz Ashraf

T-shirts featuring ‘Operation Sindoor’ on display at a store in Ludhiana, Punjab on May 17, ten days after the Indian armed forces targeted terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Media in the time of war

3 weeks ago | mid-day.com | Ajaz Ashraf

The government’s attack on independent media began soon after April 22, with the blocking of the YouTube news channel 4 pm and news portal The Wire, apart from 8000 X handles.
Normalcy can’t be Kashmir’s fate

1 month ago | origin.mid-day.com | Ajaz Ashraf

A local girl sits on a bench at a marketplace as paramilitary soldiers keep guard along a street in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, on May 4.
Challenging Hindutva: Voices of Resistance in India

1 month ago | theindiaforum.in | Ajaz Ashraf |Rollo Romig |Rahul Bhatia |Nirupama Subramanian

“India under Modi” is a much discussed subject. More than a decade has passed since Narendra Modi led the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to victory in the 2014 election. He has since led the party to two more terms in office, in 2019 and 2024, even though the BJP did not win enough seats to form a government on its own in the last election. In this long decade, India has changed in many ways. Some would say, changed beyond recognition.
Kashmir: A graveyard of clichés

1 month ago | origin.mid-day.com | Ajaz Ashraf

A protest is held against the Pahalgam terror attack, in which 26 lives were lost, in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, on April 27.
The false depiction of Waqf

1 month ago | origin.mid-day.com | Ajaz Ashraf

Hyderabad residents stage a protest against the Waqf (Amendment) Act near the Charminar on April 18.
Hypocrisy over Jyotirao Phule

1 month ago | mid-day.com | Ajaz Ashraf

A still from Ananth Mahadevan’s Phule, starring Pratik Gandhi and Patralekhaa as social reformers Jyotirao and Savitribai Phule Director Ananth Mahadevan believes he has mollified Brahmin organisations upset over the trailer of his film Phule, a biopic of Jyotirao Phule (his first name is spelt variously), India’s foremost crusader against caste discrimination in the 19th century. After meeting the representatives of the Akhil Bhartiya Brahmin Samaj, Mahadevan claimed they were happy when he...
Waqf law’s tyranny over Muslims

2 months ago | mid-day.com | Ajaz Ashraf

Social Democratic Party of India workers raise slogans during a protest against the passage of the Waqf (Amendment) Bill in Parliament, in Bengaluru, on April 4.