Kashmir as fragments of my diary

The disputed territory of Kashmir remains subject to the organizing imaginations of encroaching nation-states. Imagined as a cultural and geopolitical periphery in imperial gazetteers—a frontier region and border zone of sorts—occupation and coloniality in Kashmir are intertwined with pressures to prevent Kashmir from becoming any other kind of political space. While many compelling writings have emerged on Kashmir—often crafted with egalitarian intentions—they give in too easily to the straightening and homogenizing demands of disciplinary and imperial knowledge production. This prompts the following question: Can we even speak of a decolonized Kashmir when the arrangements of our very articulations remain... so colonial?