Autobiographical notes Bombay 5- When Our Boys Were Thugged
Nostalgia ‘Blue-Collar’ Boys from Srinagar ZGM ‘The City of Ships’ to use Walt Whitman’s line, ‘proud and passionate city! mettlesome, mad, extravagant city!’ was now no more strange to me. The maddening crowds on its streets, the huge tides kissing the shores like a passionate lover over an over again were no more alien to me. The evening scenes outside the old campus of the Bombay University reminiscent of some romantic scenes in an Urdu novel … Read entire article »
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The Idioms of Hubris – To Insult people of Jammu and Kashmir
The Idioms of Hubris By Z. G. Muhammad At times some words or phrases or idioms, more particularly those maliciously spoken to demean a nation’s pride get badly stuck up in one’s mind. Like witches, they haunt even in the bed. These cannot be jettisoned from the mind unless talked about boldly and candidly. For couple of days, an idiom ‘barking up the wrong tree’ has been bothering my mind. It had a resonated … Read entire article »
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Autobiographic Notes Doctors Who Loved Kashmiris
Nostalgia Our Philanthropist Businessmen By ZGM Time ticked by, I no more felt lonely in the maddening crowds of the metropolitan city. I no more saw everything around me, grey–insipid and colorless. My distressing feelings: ‘I had nothing to contribute; I played no part; I was on the edge had vaporized- soothing and freshening sea breezes had a lot to do in it.’ Now, in all its seasons, shades and colors I loved the vivacity and vibrancy of the … Read entire article »
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Autobiographical: Meeting Nehru’s Top Propaganda Man
Nostalgia Meeting ‘Garam Coat’ Man- Rajinder Singh Bedi ZGM I loved cinema. That, I believe was true about our whole generation which as children had looked upon the bioscope as ultimate entertainment. In the sixties, when first cinema was built in our locality, for my mates- even the most bookish in the class playing truant and skipping practical classes for watching a matinee show had become a pastime. Tickets for matinee shows cost less than the normal … Read entire article »
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Gateway To City of “C”- Suffering People and Sinking Economy
Punchline Gateway To The City of “C” Z. G. Muhammad Sometimes, the debates on the social media are quite informative and challenging inasmuch as they call for a serious thinking. The past week a young architect posted a picture of a newly constructed gateway to the downtown Srinagar. Many say after the three gateways to the Mogul garrison city Naagar Nagari, it is first gateway that has been constructed in the city. For Kashmiri nationalists, … Read entire article »
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Autobiographical: Khawaja Ahmad Abbas and Kashmir
Nostalgia Meeting K. A. Abbas ZGM In the city of seven islands, every Sunday had its beauty for me; it always had a new thrill and excitement. To enjoy the poetic beauty of the city in all its aesthetics, I more than often boarded a red double-decked bus at the bus stand outside my home in Colaba. Those days at the bus stands, elevators, and escalators the city was also magnificent for its discipline. … Read entire article »
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António Guterres Wake UP – It can turn into a nuclear war
PUNCHLINE António Guterres Wake UP – It can turn into a nuclear war By Z.G. Muhammad Some days back, I found a passionately written petition in my mail box appealing for ending tension on the line vivisecting Jammu and Kashmir (LOC). The petition from a journalist friend from Jammu was addressed to Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan. The appeal on behalf of the citizen of Jammu and Kashmir rightly ‘apprehend that the growing tension will intensify … Read entire article »
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