Friday, April 26, 2024

Babrah Tabasum Naikoo

Babrah Tabasum Naikoo is a freelance Journalist based in Kashmir and a postgraduate from AJK Masscommunication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

“Investigation in Kashmir is a cruel joke,” Tufail Matoo’s father on his son’s 11th death anniversary

June 11, 2010, is inscribed on Tufail Mattoo's father's heart. As, every time he is being perused by the reporters to know what caused his son Tufail's death, it revives his open wounds. Friday marked 11 years of his killing in the hands of the Indian military forces, which triggered massive protests and outrage among the Kashmiris seeking his justice.

Though ‘there is no guarantee of life in Gaza,’ stranded Palestinians in India longing for home

“Sitting by the sea in Gaza, eating Humus and falafel with friends, listening to patriotic music – Al – Taghreba al- Falastenya (Palestinian Alienation), are amongst my best memories of home”, says Ali Abushbak a Palestinian national residing in India.
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“We are no less than Palestine,” say Kashmiris protesting Israeli aggression in Gaza

"Both the Kashmiris and the Palestinians have much in common. Just like Palestine, the Kashmir is heavily blockaded and highly militarized by the state. Despite their human rights violations they claim to survive in what can be described 'as an open air prison'" says Iqra, a college student from Kashmir.