🎙️ Hey everyone, welcome back to Revise and Resubmit — your weekend pitstop for deep dives and thoughtful reads. This is our Weekend Book Review episode, and I am really excited you’re tuning in. 📚
Today, we’re stepping into a world where hidden money trails shape real-world conflicts. We are unpacking the book Terror Financing in Kashmir by Dr. Abhinav Pandya, published by Routledge India, an Imprint of Taylor & Francis, on December 6, 2023.
Now, before we get into the guts of this important work, let me tell you a little about the mind behind it. Dr. Pandya is no stranger to the field. He earned his Ph.D. on terrorism and counterterrorism in Jammu and Kashmir from OP Jindal Global University. 🎓 He's a Cornell University graduate in public affairs and an alumnus of St. Stephen’s College, Delhi — talk about an academic powerhouse.
Beyond the ivy walls, he’s the founder, director, and CEO of the Usanas Foundation, a think tank dedicated to security and foreign policy. 🛡️ His experience advising the former governor of Jammu and Kashmir during the historic abrogation of Article 370 gives his words the weight of someone who has been right there, on the pulse of change.
In Terror Financing in Kashmir, Dr. Pandya pulls back the curtain on a tangled financial web that has fueled unrest for decades. From hawala networks to counterfeit currency, from narcotics to exploited NGOs, he maps it all — using confidential interviews and ground intelligence. His work is not just an academic treatise, it’s a call for sharper counterterrorism strategies, crafted with urgency and care.
🙏 Thank you, Dr. Pandya, for writing this powerful and necessary book.
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Now, here’s a question for you to chew on this weekend:
💭 In an era of hyper-surveillance and financial regulations, how do terror networks still manage to stay one step ahead?
Reference
Pandya, A. (2023). Terror Financing in Kashmir. Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003328537
Monir Ghaedi. (2025, April 25). Key militant groups in the Kashmir insurgency. DW.com; Deutsche Welle. https://www.dw.com/en/key-militant-groups-in-the-kashmir-insurgency/a-72354333
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