Entries Tagged as ‘Kashmir’

October 4, 2008

Kashmir, bleeding

What would it be like to live under the military occupation of half a million troops?  This is life in Kashmir, a land that has seen some 80,000 deaths under the occupation of the Indian military.  (To put things in perspective:  the U.S. has a troop presence of some 150,000 soldiers in Iraq.)
Pankaj Mishra’s essay [...]