Wednesday
19
November 2025
2:30 - 4:00 PM IST
Location
Room 004, School of Arts and Sciences
Central Campus
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Tales of War: How Stories Carry the Wounds of Kashmir's Conflict
Arts and Sciences Research Seminar Series
Ipsita Chakravarty
Journalist
Assistant Professor of Practice
Jindal School of Journalism and Communication
Speaker
Dapaan is a polyphonic retelling of the Kashmir conflict that centres the voices of ordinary Kashmiris. Through journalistic interviews, Chakravarty records the experiences of those who have lived through three-and-a-half decades of an armed movement, a state crackdown and a bitter geo-political dispute between two nuclear-armed nation states.
Charkavarty pushes the journalistic interview into new terrain as she records how older traditions of storytelling, from satirical folk theatre to epic tales and bedtime fables, bled into the stories that Kashmiris have told about their lives since 1989, when the armed movement gained momentum.
In a way, Dapaan turns its gaze on the story itself as an artefact of war, shaped by it and bearing its scars. It seeks to trace a distinctly Kashmiri political subjectivity in the rhythms and idioms of such stories.
Speaker
Ipsita Chakravarty
Ipsita Chakravarty is a journalist who has written and reported extensively on armed conflicts and identity politics in Kashmir and the states of North East India. She has spent a decade-and-a-half in newsrooms, including The Times of India, The Telegraph, The Indian Express and Scroll. In 2021, she was a fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in the University of Oxford. She now teaches writing at the Jindal School of Journalism and Communication. Her first book, Dapaan: Tales From Kashmir's Conflict, was published by Westland Context in India. An international edition was published by Hurst and distributed by the Oxford University Press in the US.
