... some manner, becomes a collaborator. • 15 • A Collaborator in Kashmir The reason I had come to Kashmir was to meet Tabassum Guru, the wife of Mohammad Afzal Guru, who is on death row for his role in the at- tack on the Indian Parliament.1 However...

... birangonas are referred to as collaborators and sex workers by communities and officials, there is an implicit suggestion that rape is an erotic encounter. This suspicion, distrust, and speculation toward the war heroines comb/hide the ambiguity that exists toward the transgressed sexuality of the...

... professionals have been less eager to endorse such collaboration. Still, there are emergent signs of a new relationship between the two in this village setting—of healers sending patients to the clinics when they are unable to find a cure, and of doctors contacting healers when pharmaceuticals are ineffective...