Andrew Whitehead

Andrew Whitehead is a former BBC Delhi correspondent and is now Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the King’s India Institute, King’s College, London. His book A Mission in Kashmir, about events in the Valley in 1947, is to be republished by Gulshan Books in Srinagar.

New Kashmir and a revolutionary document

When next the temper of Kashmiri politics boiled over, it was Freda Bedi rather than B.P.L. who was on the spot and propelled to prominence.

Kashmir: Twenty years after

My most recent visit to Srinagar, last spring, came twenty years exactly after my first reporting assignment in Kashmir. It prompted me to reflect on what’s changed over that...