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Many experiences have shaped the literary sensibility of the 25-year-old Kashmiri writer and language teacher Asif Tariq, but two stand out for their passive and overt violence. As a standard 7 student at a school in his native Ganderbal area, he submitted a poem in Kashmiri for the school magazine. The editor tore the poem up and, with derision, told him to think of singing as a career. Folk singers are perched at the bottom of the social ladder in Kashmir. PREMIUM Bestselling Kashmiri novelist Asif Tariq…

‘If someone like Neil Young or Bob Marley were born in Kashmir, who do you think they would have supported?” Ali Saffudin asks. “The oppressed. These are my inspirations.” For Saffudin, a Kashmiri folk singer-songwriter, his music is a way for people to understand the plight of Kashmir, a volatile state in the Indian subcontinent which has been the subject of territorial dispute, separatist insurgency and resistance against Indian rule since it was split during partition in 1947. It was only in 2020 that the parliament of…

Meta, formerly known as Facebook, announced that it is adding four new languages to its fact-checking programme in India.The programme will now include Kashmiri, Bhojpuri, Odia, and Nepali, in addition to the existing 11 Indian languages, the company said in a statement.In addition, it has also partnered with NewsMeter, a fact checker primarily focused on the southern states of the country.The partnership will help connect people to accurate and verified information and enhance Meta's fact-checking capabilities in…