Raqif Makhdoomi

Jun 12, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Nayeema Ahmad Mahjoor |Swati Goswami |Amit Sengupta |Raqif Makhdoomi

When the recently elected Parliament member Engineer Rasheed joined the mainstream politics of Jammu and Kashmir about fifteen years ago, hardly anyone expected that in about a few years, he would turn the tide of local politics in such a way that the old and traditional political parties would feel threatened or defeated by him, that too when he had been in prison for the last five years. His student son campaigned for him.

May 15, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Swati Goswami |Amit Sengupta |Nayeema Ahmad Mahjoor |Raqif Makhdoomi

Ifat, a tech and social justice researcher from Kashmir, recollects that she hardly went to school for three days a week. The remaining days saw bad weather, curfews or encounters. Her school was not equipped to handle weather issues but so wasn’t the world to adapt to a pandemic and yet it did. Why have Kashmiri children been deprived of normal education and how has it affected their lives?

May 5, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Amit Sengupta |Nayeema Ahmad Mahjoor |Raqif Makhdoomi |Shobha Aggarwal

Anuradha Bhasin is the Managing Editor of the ‘Kashmir Times’. She is the author of the book ‘A Dismantled State: The Untold Story of Kashmir after Article 370’, published by Harper Collins India (2022), and has contributed to several anthologies and monographs, besides Indian and international publications. She is presently a Senior JSK Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, the USA. In conversation with journalist Amit SenguptaHow is the poll scenario shaping up in the Valley?

Mar 2, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy |Nayeema Ahmad Mahjoor |Raqif Makhdoomi |Shobha Aggarwal

Among the nearly one-and-a-half billion population of the subcontinent, twelve million Kashmiris are included who are not only cricket fans but also sentimental about it. Unfortunately, they have not found a place in national or international cricket except for Pervaz Rasool and Umran Malik.  Political turmoil or lack of opportunities? It needs a proper study. Pervez Rasool played for IPL and one international, whereas Umran got a chance in international cricket.

Jan 31, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Ramzy Baroud |Dan Corjescu |Raqif Makhdoomi |Marwan Asmar

Europe stayed silent when Israel began pounding the besieged Gaza Strip with the kind of ferocity that could only lead to a genocide. In fact, Europe remained silent when the word ‘genocide’ quickly replaced the earlier reference to the ‘Israel-Hamas war’, starting on October 7. Those familiar with Europe’s political discourse and action regarding Israel and Palestine, must already realize that most European governments have always been on the side of Israel.