Men From Tulail in Downtown Srinagar
Nostalgia Jummah – Man From Tulail ZGM Some poet has said it candidly; as one turns pages of life backward, some ‘gleam like gold, some are depressing as ‘pitch-dark nights.’ That holds true, for our whole generation born after end of the feudal autocracy. The pages that gleam like gold are few and far between and those lost in ‘pitch-dark nights’ far exceed them. Of the pitch-dark pages, the division of our state into the two … Read entire article »
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Kashmir: Once Again On Floor of the Security Council
Kashmir: Security Council Rise To Occasion Z. G. Muhammad For the past seventy years the war of words, on the floor of the United Nation’s Security Council on the Kashmir Dispute, has been a routine with India and Pakistan. It, in fact, began, on 30 December 1947, when New Delhi sent a cable to the Security Council, through its representative at UN. The cable, making a complaint under Article 35 of UN charter … Read entire article »
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“Shallot Man” – A Dickensian Character in Ashpaz’s Team
Nostalgia ‘Shallot Man’ ZGM The lofty tents with white satin roofs, frills at ends hanging like damsel braids and transparent curtains flying at a slight breeze have an Arabian Night romance about them. For their grandeur, they are called white houses. The dazzling illuminations and the mellifluous folk songs tearing apart silence of the nights reminiscent of festive occasions like Shab-i-Shalimar of the late fifties are most familiar scenes these days in the city. Scores of … Read entire article »
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Kashmir: Imran Khan’s Litmus Test
PUNCHLINE Kashmir: Imran Khan’s Litmus Test By Z.G. Muhammad On Saturday, August 18, 2018, four days after the Independence Day of the country there was a change of guard in Pakistan. This was not a simply passing baton from one political party to another. It was a paradigm shift inasmuch as it brought to end rotating leadership between the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and the Pakistan People’s Party after decades. In fact, transferred power from the fiefdom of the … Read entire article »
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Zanapan-e- Kihaar- These lowly paid animated the life in the night
Nostalgia Zanapan-e- Kihaar By ZGM Like a ‘hypnotic gem,’ our birthplace was mesmerizing. It had many facets, with every facet having its own shade and color, the life here opened like into a kaleidoscopic- with its variety of colors continually changing. For diversity of its characters, with children of less god immensely contributing to the landscape of the Downtown, it reads like a Dickensian novel. In the wee morning hours, it would be goatherds, dressed like Hebrew in the … Read entire article »
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Ambassador Yusuf Buch: As I See Him
Yusuf Buch, as I see him In search of a genuine intellectual voice PUNCHLINE by ZG Muhammad Some time back, I had written there was no Edward Said on our side. My lament was more out of concern rather than critique. I believe that an intellectually stimulating discourse on Kashmir was missing and so far it had been pathetically routine and blatantly ‘de- intellectualized’ projection of the Kashmir case that had vexed it thus far. I had written … Read entire article »
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On Kashmir Dispute Vajpayee Puts Nehru in The Dock
PUNCHLINE Vajpayee Was Different From Nehru? Z.G. Muhammad In all literature; history, memoirs, and travelogues, Kashmir is described as a country. Notwithstanding, being ruled by Moguls, Durranis, and Sikhs through their governors for exacting taxes to the extent of famishing people, it continued to be known as a country. It retained, this title even after India and Pakistan were born as an independent dominions. For the first time, it lost this title on 27 October … Read entire article »
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