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DIASPORA DIALOGUES: Unpacking Kashmir's Long Struggle for Self-Determination

In conversation with a Kashmiri historian on memory, exile, and the unfinished fight for freedom.

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Jennifer Chowdhury
Jun 04, 2025
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ANNOUNCING A NEW SERIES!

One of the most quietly disorienting parts of being part of a diaspora is how little we often know about the places we come from. War, migration, colonization—and even silence within our own families—can interrupt or erase those histories. Add to that the lack of education about other immigrant communities and their homelands, and it’s easy to feel unmoored or alone.

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Diaspora Dialogues is a course correction.

This Q&A series from Port of Entry will feature conversations with thinkers, creators, and cultural workers navigating life between worlds. Together, we explore what it means to build, remember, and belong when “home” isn’t just one place—and when the past still echoes in the present.

We talk about the hard stuff: displacement, loss, identity, assimilation.
But we also make space for joy, creativity, and resilience—what emerges when people live at the intersections …

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