News at Eleven: Suvaid Yaseen, a young Kashmiri scholar

at JNU, says: "The interest that Kashmir's peaceful protests since 2008 created in India has been massive. The State could no longer legitimise shooting down unarmed teenagers to death. The debate now has entered Indian drawing rooms. Then there is all the writing coming out from Kashmir and the debate is getting pushed further into the Indian mainstream."

Utathya, a young researcher, and among the audience, says [of poet Agha Shahid Ali]: "Shahid, at some level, was able to remove the hegemony that India and Pakistan had traditionally imposed on the Kashmir discourse. Leaving the State aside, Shahid's poetry made his Indian and Pakistani audience feel as Kashmiri as a Kashmiri would feel while reading him."

from The Friday Times: The inheritance of loss

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