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		<title>Street Child Rembers Legendaries</title>
		<link>http://peacewatchkashmir.com/blog/2012/05/20/street-child-rembers-legendaries/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=street-child-rembers-legendaries</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 14:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Turbaned Legendary

 
Looking back is not being weirdo-it is not being crazy. It is cathartic. Allow me the liberty, to say nostalgia is an ‘elixir that heals the hearts’ and soothes the fatigued nerves. It is loveable. Passing through the lanes that cradled us is loveable even today. They resonate with lullabies and sing songs of love, “That mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude.”
The skyline of my birth burg makes me tizzy and tipsy. If you ask me why, I will fumble for an answer-, it is inexplicable. The shimmering golden spires of the minarets sometimes make me trance and   mysteriously take me on a spiritual voyage and everything around in rapture sings hymns like “whirling Dervishes” of Egypt.
On every visit the quartet minarets of Jamia Masjid,   open up for me like pages of history. Every minaret turns into narrator incarnate narrating told and untold tales of the past seven ...]]></description>
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		<title>Abdul Majid Zargar has a viewpoint</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[   The Supreme Court judgment in Pathribal fake encounter case constitutes a severe assault on the right to life of common people living in conflict areas like Kashmir. Following Chittisinghpora massacre of Sikhs in the year 2000, five innocent civilians were virtually dragged from their beds and killed in cold blood by personnel of 7 Rashtriya Rifles. The victims were labeled as LET mercenaries responsible behind the chittisinghpora incident. Even the then Union Home Minster, Lal Krishen Advani flew from New-Delhi to shower praises on the Army unit responsible for the Act.
When the identity of five men became known as innocent civilians, protests intensified across Anantnag, forcing the government to order a judicial inquiry. On April 3, 2000, the protesters marched towards the Deputy Commissioner’s office. Nine of them were killed and 35 injured in police firing, including some of the relatives of the missing men at Brackpora.
After much ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hurriyat Conference&#8217;s Battle Within</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 12:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abdullah]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mirwaiz Farooq]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It was a storm in teacup. That is how I looked at the ripples caused within a faction of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHCM)   by the statement of its former Chairman Abdul Gani Bhat. He had stated that the United Nations resolutions on Kashmir ‘were not practically applicable in the present time’. He also asked the multi-party forum to join hands with the National Conference and the PDP and drafting a common minimum program with the two parties that believe in the finality of the accession of the state with Indian union and have been seeking some   concessions within the framework of Indian Constitution. The two parties have been demanding autonomy and self-rule, which when read between the lines are synonymous.   The APHC (M) calling for a joint political front with political parties that it has been denouncing as ‘quislings’ for their stand on finality of  accession of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Untold Tales of Kashmir</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 07:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It was time of change. As, I was leaving my mother’s lap, that warm hug, where evil could not harm me and learning to waddle with watangour- walker,  toddling and  stumbling at every step,  lots of changes were taking place&#8211; changes that were bringing down the towers of Ilium, hubris and hegemony. It was a period of paradoxes and power.  I do not know if these changes could be compared to the changes during the Victorian period for criss-crossing of ideologies, politics, duality and duplicity. It was a period of what social scientists would call as ‘paradigmatic change in the socio-economic structure.’  Panting for breaths the centuries old order and practices was dying – feudalism was dying, the brutal institution of moneylenders was gasping for breaths,    and peasantry was discovering its powers. Trapped in ‘slough of passivity and despond and resigned to a life of mere endurance like Toni ...]]></description>
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		<title>Kashmir Muslim Society New Challanges</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 05:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I want to have a frank talk with ‘the pulpit’. My belief is that I will not be committing any blasphemy in stating my mind to the preachers and sermonizers in my part of the world. Like overwhelming majority, I am born, and brought up in a Muslim family and have not received any formal education in Deen.  I have not been a student of any seminary or theological school.  Conscious of my limitations and lack of religious scholarship in articulating my concerns I will avoid taking recourse to any dogmatic school of thought but will strive to put my point of view before the sermonizers and preachers not as polemist but as a humble student of Kashmir history
. Having understood the essence of the verse 103 of Aal-Imran, “Hold on firmly to the rope of Allah and do not allow differences to occur among yourself”, I will try ...]]></description>
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		<title>Abdul Majid Zargar Reviews- The Meadows, Kashmir 1995</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 02:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ There are now enough grounds to order reinvestigation of 1995 abduction &#38; killing of six foreign tourists following startling revelations by a new book that they were killed by pro-government counter-insurgents fully aided &#38; abetted by the security forces . The book – “The Meadow, Kashmir 1995 &#8211; Where the terror began, by Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark”, succinctly details the reasons &#38; circumstances leading to the brutal killings of five out of six abducted innocent foreign tourists. The two British Authors, who specialize in investigative journalism and have worked for UK’s “The Sunday Times” and “The Guardian” for nearly 18 years and have been honored with ‘Foreign Correspondents of the Year’ award in 2004 and ‘British Journalists of the Year’ award in 2009, have made painstaking efforts in lifting the veil over many other incidents which happened around that time.In respect of abduction &#38; Killings of Foreign tourists ...]]></description>
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		<title>My Nostalgia Story of A Generation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 18:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ &#160;
I am a witness- witness to an era. So is the whole crop of my generation and the generation after. Born and brought up in a city, should I say of defiance or desolation; I have been the witness- in the words of a poet ‘ to the threshing of the grain’.
Something eerie was there in the zephyr- yes the morning breeze that blew across our city; it sang different cradlesongs for us. Songs, which for over three centuries have mixed with chilly wintry winds and soothing summer breezes. That taught ‘us no love for the authority but for the defiant’ and abiding love for the ‘commoners’- the devout. I do not remember in my childhood having ever seen a minister walking through our streets or visiting our school- top man   ever to visit our school would be the school inspector. I remember every majzoob pacing barefoot in freezing ...]]></description>
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		<title>Nostalgia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 18:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I am a witness- witness to an era. So is the whole crop of my generation and the generation after. Born and brought up in a city, should I say of defiance or desolation; I have been the witness- in the words of a poet ‘ to the threshing of the grain’.
Something eerie was there in the zephyr- yes the morning breeze that blew across our city; it sang different cradlesongs for us. Songs, which for over three centuries have mixed with chilly wintry winds and soothing summer breezes. That taught ‘us no love for the authority but for the defiant’ and abiding love for the ‘commoners’- the devout. I do not remember in my childhood having ever seen a minister walking through our streets or visiting our school- top man   ever to visit our school would be the school inspector. I remember every majzoob pacing barefoot in freezing ...]]></description>
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		<title>Kashmir Youth Heading Where?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  
I was shocked!  Have, I a reason to get shocked on discovering that our new generation is detached from its past. It knows not what it ought to know. Have I a right to expect young people to think as I do; to believe in what I believe in or to love what I love. If I am not becoming too didactic and want to foist my ideas on the techno savvy generation.  These questions bothered me,   after having had a marathon session of interaction with a group of young students.
In connection with the World Book Day, Debating Society of a premier college, with a scintillating past, invited me to share my experiences with students on book reading and book reviewing.  I have not been a student of this college but its list of illustrious alumni is so varied and variegated that it is impossible to think of contemporary ...]]></description>
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		<title>Who am I?</title>
		<link>http://peacewatchkashmir.com/blog/2012/04/23/who-am-i/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=who-am-i</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Talking Identity
It set me thinking! In connection with the observance of the World Heritage Day, I received an invitation card from a government organization, the motto on top of the card read: `Preserve the Heritage – Preserve the identity.’  The motto by all stretch of imagination is innocuous but for me it subtly made a huge political statement and stirred many a question that called for answers.
Who am I?  Where are my roots?  What is my identity? Do I have an identity of my own or I am just a part of the sub-continental identity? Does this identity provide basis to my grand narrative?   How and why has   my ‘identity’ become part of the “dominant discourse”?
To tell me who I am, some years back a beeline of “scholars’, “researchers”, “think tanks” and NGOs from arid planes of the Central India  and the Western sea coasts flew over fourteen thousand ...]]></description>
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