I want to get a couple of pashmina shawls but I’m not looking for sellers. As much as I understand that Kashmiri economy relies heavily on tourism, I can’t afford to pay the tourist prices, really. If someone could help me buy a pashmina shawl from Kashmir, it’d be very helpful. (I’ll get it shipped to my location in Delhi)

Hey folks... recently got to know about this sub and sae the comments and they were very mostly in kashmiri i guess😅...am a linguist person and very curious to learn kashmiri...any suggestions or resources that you can suggest?🤔...i wish it was on duolingo🥲

does anyone have access to his poetry or prose, i’ve tried to find it but could only find his paintings?

Not sure if this has been discussed, but with the booming makeup industry in Kashmir, I thought it’d be useful to have an honest chat about local makeup artists.

Many makeup artists charge a lot (upto 40k for one makeup look), which is MIGHT understandable for quality work, but there’s also a lot of elitism, classism, and sometimes outright rudeness from some of these professionals. I’ve heard that certain MUAs only take bookings if clients are wearing designer outfits and branded jewelry, making it difficult for others to book their services. Sadly, word-of-mouth is the main way to know who’s worth the hype and who isn’t, but a lot of people are afraid to speak up.

Let’s share our experiences (good or bad) with Kashmiri makeup artists so that others can make informed choices. Who’s worth booking? Who should be avoided? Any hidden gems out there? Let’s help each other out!

The logo of the subreddit is the maple leaf (often symbolises Canada), not our Chinar.

Tala modus wan ki logo kar change.

Help me make this message reach the mods.

What ethnicity do people from Baderwah and kishtwar come under? And are gujjurs and bakkerwal a seperate ethnicity?

>.......They (Leftists) fail to understand that the diversity in Palestinian (Kashmiri) society and politics also translates into diverging attitudes toward resistance to colonialism. While they call for a nuanced understanding of Palestinian politics, that nuance doesn’t extend to an understanding of the dynamics and forces that both motivate and shy away from (or actively oppose) anticolonial resistance.  This ignorance of Palestinian (Kashmiri) politics is almost willful. It harbors a secret hostility to resistance — especially armed resistance — but claims to oppose Hamas (armed islamist resistance groups) on entirely different, perhaps ideological, grounds. Yet to truly understand intra-Palestinian (Kashmiri) dynamics and unpack the “monolith,” we have to actually understand how Palestinian (Kashmiri) political forces have evolved with respect to the very idea of resistance in the first place.

>........Moreover, this radical fragmentation has led many Palestinians (Kashmiris) to begin questioning the very notion of our unity as a people, pondering whether the discrepancy in the capacity of Palestinians (Kashmiris) to resist is a sign of the weight of geographic divisions (in case of kashmir ethnic divisions as well) and various colonial governmentalities after 75 years.

>......... An intense internal dialogue unfolds where Palestinians (Kashmiris) are torn between the radical potentiality of resistance and their visceral dread of the relentless Israeli (Indian) military juggernaut. Consider the paradox between the desire for liberation and the gnawing fear that any disturbance of everyday life — even one caused by resistance — could unravel the fragile semblance of normalcy. This is the true site of ideological struggle, not only in the public sphere but at the level of the individual, where the sublime possibility of freedom confronts the traumatic reality of potential annihilation by a superior military machine. 

>........Each force, with its own demands, pulls the Palestinians (Kashmiris) towards an array of existential choices — revolution or resignation, emigration or steadfastness, symbolic effacement or the full affirmation of identity through acts of sacrifice. This silent internal dialogue manifests itself in diverse political articulations — in the oscillation between the stance of the intellectual and martyr Bassel Al-Araj, who declared that “resistance always has efficacy in time,” and the more cynical resignation implied by positions like those of Mahmoud Abbas, which proclaim “long live resistance, but it is already dead and should be killed wherever it reappears!”

>Meanwhile, the ruling class, in its lust for continuity and control, perpetuates a “political realism” that conveniently overlooks its own class bias and social prejudices. A narrow elite from among the colonized profits. The ultimate aim of this pragmatism is to create a reality in which the very notion of resistance is lost in the annals of a compromised reality. But it is nothing more than sophisticated rhetoric justifying security and economic alliance with a settler colonial regime that replaces the colonized with the colonizers. 

>What all this tells us is that the main dividing line between Palestinian political factions isn’t over the schism between secularism and Islamism, the struggle over divergent socio-economic agendas, or the merits of a particular tactic in service of liberation. (kinda irrelevant in the present day kashmir scenario - there is no non islamist org on the ground - some urban elites on social media dont count).

>But many of Hamas’s (islamist armed groups') critics offer nothing in their alliance system, in their forms of struggle, or even in their intellectual output that could match its work to accumulate power in the Gaza Strip and its opening of a strategic pandora’s box that has overflowed and deformed the colonial regime, providing a historical moment that includes among its many possibilities the potential for Palestinian (Kashmiri) liberation.

>This isn’t merely an ethical opposition to the use of violence; it’s a fear that the Islamists might actually prove to be more effective than their own, now largely melancholic and demobilized, political stance. Meanwhile, certain factions within the Palestinian elite (in case of kashmir non elites as well) gaze upon Israel (india) as a beacon of modernity, and are driven by a profound fear of their own perceived “regressive” society — a telling indication of their ideological dispositions, ensnared in the lure of the Other and terrified of the emancipatory potential of the Palestinian masses. 

> Resistance is pre-political. It exists organically among this generation of Palestinians who continue to be erased from their land and continue to lose their friends and loved ones. It is those forces who do well in organizing that latent resistance and end up becoming a force to be reckoned with in Palestinian society. It is a necessity, and even in its militarization, it grows from tangible material realities, rather than from ideological choices alone. 

>The left must confront this basic fact. One cannot ground solidarity with Palestine on a politics that dismisses, overlooks, or excludes Hamas (armed islamist groups). This stance fails to grasp the complexities and contradictions inherent in the Palestinian (kashmiri) struggle. In doing so, the left overlooks the dividing line between collaboration and resistance to its peril.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/the-question-of-hamas-and-the-left/

Hi all, I was planning on a trip to Kashmir for z2weeks in March. Can anyone please help me out if there will be any snow in first 2 weeks of March?