Cupcakes and Cashmere

Manne , a transgender who lives in Srinagar's Downtown, says she suffers various challenges in the Kashmiri society, including physical assault recently that resulted in her leg being broken. It is the month of June. The long stretch of Pride. Large organizations all throughout the planet are adding pride banners to their Social Media Profiles. Activists are fighting for LGBTQ Rights. NGO's are helping the LGTBQ people group every which way. People are taking out pride rallies around the globe in solidarity with the LGBT community. Pride banners are seen everywhere. In any case, in Kashmir, things appear to be the exceptionally inverse.  She goes by the nickname Manne , however Manzoor Ahmad is the name given to him when she was born. She is 38 as of today. For as far back as 19 years, she has been matchmaking, dancing and singing at Weddings.  Manzoor wears a Lehanga as a camouflage, however says these don't help in numerous cases since she has masculine lookup, facial hai

By Hasnain Riza Originally published in  The Odyssey. India's Burglary Business against Kashmiris is as flourishing as could be expected.  More funding and land is being allocated for colonial settlements and outposts. The police isn't investigating while the Army is hunting for parrots it says were stolen. The colonialism is exactly what it used to be, except it is more sophisticated.  In contrast, the expellers and land thieves know that nothing bad will happen to them. They’re the privatized arm of a successful state-owned robbery business and a full partner in it. In short, Hindutva, to use their term for it. The symbiosis between the “unknowns” who have beeb attacking Kashmiri's on their own land, the police who won’t bother to find the assailants and the army that protects them is clear on the ground at any given moment.  This is savagery without trying to hide, not stealthily. What's more, this brutality is completing approach while proceeding to shape and direct