Conflict

Kashmiri Women’s Resistance Day is observed to salute the women, who in the face of the struggle against Kunan Poshpora, refused to give up.

We are made to convince ourselves that the standards that quantify and categorise intelligence, weight, body types, beauty and success and their degrees of separation are not deliberate decisions in order to maintain status quo but conscious decisions that we ourselves make.

Those of us who reside in high-rise buildings in cities would have to be living in a bubble if we denied the segregation of spaces (albeit unofficial in many cases) on the basis of caste and religion.