Echoes from Beyond the Banihal-Kashmir: Human Rights and Armed Forces

Jammu and Kashmir in India, for last two decades has been suffering a bloddy carnage of militancy insurgency, exodus of kashmiri pandits and other Hindus from the state. The deployment of the Army and Para Military forces to combat has brought it under the ever watcjful eyes of various national and international vanguards od Human Rights for violation and alleged violations of Human Rights.

An alumna of St. Mary s School, Shillong and Guwahati University, the author is a teacher by profession. She also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Human Rights from the Indian Institute of Human Rights, New Delhi. The author started her career as a sub-editor in a North East English daily and eventually moved to teaching. She has widely travelled to remote and insurgency-affected areas of the North-east and Jammu & Kashmir and has had the unique experience of interacting with a cross section of people and troops wherever she has travelled. Besides publication of her poems and articles in dailies, the author s poems have found a place in books published by the Govt. of India on 50 years of Indian Independence. The Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS) published a commentary by her ( Changlang: An Overview ) in its summer 2010 journal.