Swati Goswami

Jun 24, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Nayeema Ahmad Mahjoor |Bilal Dar |Swati Goswami |Amit Sengupta

A few days back, during his Eid prayers on the Line of Control across the border, Pakistan’s military chief, General Asim Munir, made a rhetoric about his support and solidarity with Kashmir that, according to him, has been under constant onslaught from India. As usual, I contacted locals associated with different schools of thought in the valley to gauge the public mood and reaction to the statement. Believe me, no soul seemed even the least interested or made eye contact with me.

Jun 14, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Bilal Dar |Nayeema Ahmad Mahjoor |Swati Goswami |Amit Sengupta

Have you ever pondered over how and why some languages get replaced by other languages? This phenomenon and process of replacement of one language by other one is termed as glottophagy.  Glottophagy literally means “language eating” from the Greek words “glossa” (tongue) and “phagein” (to eat). So, lexically glottophagy refers to the absorption or replacement of less dominant languages by more dominant ones due to natural, political or economic causes.

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?