We support and help initiate conversations around culture and politics with an aim to question the traditional mindsets, mainstream discourses and entrenched positions. We cover political, social and cultural dissent within the larger context of the conflict and its contours to provide an honest understanding of daily life. Our primary focus is the individual and collective struggles. Our stories
are from across the world but our primary focus is Asia, Middle East and Central Asia. Our content also includes exhaustive pieces on literature of resistance, expressions of art, fiction, poetry and stories experienced and written by common people and not just established writers. This is why The Kashmir Walla has been widely recognised as a forum for a serious discussion on art, politics and society. This magazine also encourages the readers to contribute on contemporary events and issues regions and provides them with a platform. A professional team of journalists, writers and artists produce this magazine.
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BBC Radio
"An online magazine The Kashmir Walla [that] mixes art and politics and covers everything from the disappearances to mass graves and all else..." Al-Jazeera.com
"There has been brutal murder on the streets of Srinagar and that has not been reported well in India, so they turned to new media...opened up websites like Kashmirwalla and I'm heartened by that." —Mirza Waheed, author of The Collaborator. The Indian Express
"...a theme based monthly online magazine, which tells stories of Kashmir." Al-Jazeera
"Go to thekashmirwalla.com today, the website is an insider's story book of life in Kashmir..." Mint Lounge
Mint chose The Kashmir Walla among the eight online-magazines saying "a growing crop of online magazines is changing the ways in which we read, think and write"
The Sunday Guardian
"...story of ordinary Kashmiris, and the havoc that the conflict in the Valley has unleashed in their lives, that is mirrored on the Kashmirwalla website...the Kashmirwalla aims at painting the real picture of Kashmir across the world sans censorship and biases...Short stories, poems, profiles and autobiographical narratives published on the website poignantly reflect the chequered everyday lives of the people of the valley...has photo essays that chronicle the changing times in Kashmir." The Counsellor
"The Kashmir Walla has become one of the credible source of information on Kashmir."
