Muhammad Waleed Akhtar On 5 August 2025, the sixth anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370, police officers in Indian-Occupied Jammu and Kashmir raided bookshops across the Valley and seized 25 books. Among the forfeited titles were works by Arundhati Roy, A.G. Noorani and Anuradha Bhasin, scholars and journalists whose writing had documented Kashmir’s history from perspectives the state finds inconvenient. The J&K Home Department declared …
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