Kashmir and the Death of Public Discourse: Where Have Our Intellectuals Gone?

There was a time when Kashmir was not merely a geographical landscape of mountains, rivers and valleys; it was also a landscape of ideas. Its intellectual life found expression in poetry, philosophy, religious thought, literary conversations and the quiet defiance of questioning minds. Its saints, poets, scholars and thinkers did not simply inherit traditions; they examined them, interpreted them and, at times, challenged the very foundations upon which society rested.  Ideas travelled through m

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