Landed Realities

Land is not just a surface we walk upon; it is a living archive, a silent witness to the rise and fall of civilisations, the keeper of forgotten stories. Modern hands model the upper layers of the land; below, it cradles the remnants of lost worlds. To understand land fully, we must explore its visible present and hidden past, where history sleeps beneath our feet. Today, land is a contested, commodified, and constructed space. Its meaning varies depending on who controls it, who desires it, and who remembers what it once was. We might build a more sustainable world by listening to the land's surface and depths.
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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Response in Real Time
On April 22, 2025, terrorists affiliated with the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) opened fire on a group of tourists in Jammu and Kashmir's Baisaran Valley in Pahalgam.

Living War Rooms
Every time tensions flare between the two nuclear-armed neighbours, drawing- room generals, WhatsApp warriors, and tea-stall tacticians flood the airwaves with unsolicited military advice—while real lives hang in the balance

The Fate of a Boy's Rubber Ball
Residents of places close to the border desperately hope that the ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan will de-escalate

Parted, Again
After the Pahalgam terror attack, many families had to say abrupt goodbyes to their loved ones after they were sent back to Pakistan. Future is uncertain for those who are still living here

Long-range Response
The transformation of India's strategic restraint to calibrated retaliation against Pakistan

War and TRUTH
A war is not just an armed conflict for physical control of a geographical territory; it's also about shaping larger public opinion with carefully curated propaganda

A Fragile Calm
SOUTH Asia has stepped back from the brink of war with the announcement of a ceasefire by India's Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri. What threatened to spiral into a full-blown conflict between nuclear-armed neighbours, India and Pakistan, has, for now, given way to a fragile calm.

No Neutral Move
The sudden legislative dismantling of waqf institutions is a calculated political step

Journalism of Courage
A son and a granddaughter, Chander and Jyotsna Mohan, chronicle the history of Pratap: A Defiant Newspaper. But it turns out to be much more than that—it juxtaposes the bravery and stature of freedom fighters in pre-Independence India with the current rulers’ preening and pretensions

Alike is Hell, or Paradise, or Heaven
The brunt of the military escalation between India and Pakistan was felt by people in the Valley, especially near its fraught borders, far away from the studios that amped up the war talk