Monday, July 16, 2012

The Truth About Kashmir (audio)

AR (alternativeradio.org)
The 14th Dalai Lama visits troubled Kashmir, the gateway to Buddhist India (Ladakh)
Kashmir: Buried Evidence
Among the many issues plaguing South Asia, none is as violent or deeply contested as Kashmir.
  
The problem mirrors China's Tibet and America's Palestine -- an intransigent land issue of genocidal proportions.
   
The major unresolved issue of the disastrous British partition of India in 1947, Kashmir has been the site of wars and the threat of wars, and probably the world's longest and most extensive military occupation....
  
Dr. A.P. Chatterji (greaterkashmir.com)
Dr. Angana P. Chatterji is an anthropologist, activist, and feminist historian from Calcutta, India. She is a co-convener of the International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian-administered Kashmir.
  
Dr. Chatterji's research is closely related to her activism and focuses mainly on India. An anthropologist by profession, she has studied "militarized governance, gender and identity, and self-determination" in Indian-administered Kashmir and communal violence in Orissa.
 
In the context of the United States, she has researched issues related to "hyper-nationalism, diaspora, and identity politics" in American society.
  
She was formerly (1997-2011) part of the faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), a private educational institution based in San Francisco, along with her husband, Richard Shapiro. More

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