Tavleen Singh

3 weeks ago | financialexpress.com | Tavleen Singh

War is always ugly and painful but this time India had no choice. What happened in Pahalgam was so awful, so calculatedly cruel that if some action had not been taken against the Islamist republic next door every Indian would have been left enraged, ashamed and feeling hopeless. Pakistan’s spokespersons and sympathisers have gone to extraordinary lengths to convince the world that India acted without proof that there was Pakistani involvement in the Pahalgam atrocity. They miss the point.

1 month ago | indianexpress.com | Tavleen Singh

The horror of Pahalgam is hard to erase. So, a mood of hyper-nationalism continues to spread across the country. Everyone seems to be prepared for war with Pakistan and everyone seems to want this to happen, without noticing that we are already fighting an ugly, undeclared war against a cowardly enemy. An enemy that dares not show its face and prefers fighting unarmed civilians to soldiers, but we are not fighting terrorism. We are fighting a war. And as in wartime we need to ask if we are prepared.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Tavleen Singh

1 day agoSoldiers demolish homes of alleged attackers in Kashmir following the region’s deadliest civilian assault in decades. Soldiers in Indian-administered Kashmir have demolished the homes of two men suspected of carrying out the disputed region’s deadliest attack against civilians in nearly two …

1 month ago | indianexpress.com | Tavleen Singh

This has been a hard piece to write. Every time I sat down to write the first sentence, images of horror from that sunny, mountainous meadow distracted me. Images of the bodies of young men, images of women weeping for dead male relatives, images of terrified children. Of all these images, the one that has become deeply etched in my head is that of the desolate young bride sitting beside the body of the Naval officer she married just days before coming to Pahalgam.

1 month ago | indianexpress.com | Tavleen Singh

Story continues below this adThese trolls usually spout venom from anonymous handles, but this time most did not try to conceal their links to the Bharatiya Janata Party. Some declared proudly that they were members of Modi’s ‘parivar’ and others said that they were proud to be followed by Narendra Modi. What sickened me was that the trolling was less about Urdu and more about me personally.