12 Articles by
Prasenjeet Kumar
An author who has written thirty books, six of which centre around Kashmir — You Can’t Kill My Love: A Kashmir Holocaust Love Story, Still Missing…, Kashmir is Free and Kashmir Thinks It’s Free and Kashmir is Free Finally (co-authored with his father Dr. Arun Kumar (IAS) Retd.), the Outsider’s Tales and a non-fiction memoir Unmasking Kashmir/The Outsider’s Curse (co-authored with his mother Sonali Kumar (IAS) Retd.) You can contact him at: [email protected]
Opinions
So, how do we tackle radical Islamist terror?
Now no one is claiming that these killings of non-Muslims could be linked to unemployment, exploitation, dispossession… of anyone in Kashmir – explanations once bandied to justify the expulsion of lakhs of Kashmiri Pandits in 1990.
Opinions
The Waseem Rizvi controversy and the Manusmriti
the controversy has admittedly put the focus on what these 26 verses actually say and sparked off another age-old debate. The debate between the Quran and other holy books like the Manusmriti.
Opinions
The Tandav around Tandav and OTT platforms
Boycotting Social Media is certainly of no help. Instead, we should focus on using them as a tool to expose the anti-Hindu contents.
Open Letters
No, Javed Akhtar, I will not celebrate Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Even if we accept that Faiz’s poem was in the context of a protest against a Pakistani dictator, why sing it in India against a democratically elected government and a democratically passed law (CAA)?
Opinions
Dear Harris Sultan, all religions are not equally intolerant: Hindu intolerance and Islamic intolerance are way apart
What’s the difference between a Hindu issuing a death threat and a Muslim doing the same? I’d say the very difference between trolling and murder.
Opinions
Why Chetan Bhagat is so very wrong on Kashmir
Chetan Bhagat when says, stone-pelting is due to lack of employment, he must observe that they've very categorically said that the stone pelting is NOT for lack of jobs, but for establishing Islamic Caliphate in the state.
Opinions
Trifurcating Jammu & Kashmir: The road ahead
The reason for making J&K a UT is, without the police or the IAS directly under the boots of the Abdullahs or the Muftis, their capacity to make money or create mischief will be severely limited.
Politics
Why delimitation may not be a panacea for Jammu & Kashmir
Not delimitation, but trifurcation seems to be the solution for Kashmir, splitting the state of Jammu and Kashmir into three states: Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. Here is why.
Opinions
“Modiji ko jitana hai”, said an elderly lady who could barely walk, while going to register her vote
“We cannot solve the poverty problem but we can definitely make the middle-class poorer,” seems to be the Congress motto this time. Enough to scare the middle-class.
