Kashmir Understanding “Peace of Weak” and “Peace of Brave”?
Punchline Interlocution and ‘Peace of Weak” Z. G. Muhammad It is an irony of sorts. Interestingly, for a good friend of mine, otherwise acquainted with Kashmir problem I have become bête noire – not that he does not like my looks but for his belief that while discussing ending of the seventy-year-old political uncertainty in the state, I more than often dwell upon the genesis of the dispute and write on factors that have perpetuated it. … Read entire article »
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Understanding Attacks On Dignity of Kashmiri Women?
Punchline History as Lodestar By Z. G. Muhammad I am as clueless, as any other common Kashmiri about the shocking incidents that have been taking place for almost past two months all-over Kashmir. Some young journalist might have computed the number of incidents but I have almost lost the count. Nonetheless, with every sunrise scores of questions haunt the public mind about who is attacking dignity and honor of the daughters of the land by scissoring their locks, chopping their braids and cutting ponytails of young girls. Who are these faceless people behind the heinous crimes of molestation? What is the objective behind targeting daughters of the land – the embodiment of resilience and resistance? For centuries our women courage incarnate have been in the forefront against injustice. The 1924 workers revolt … Read entire article »
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LOC Violations: Don’t Kill Us For A Sport
Punchline Don’t Kill Us For A Sport Z. G. Muhammad Who named the line dividing Jammu and Kashmir for past seventy years as the bloody line? Google, which responses to commands on smartphones like genies in old films also could not help me in finding an answer. Nonetheless, it is the most appropriate title given to this artificial line dividing not just the territory but the people of the state- dividing a brother from a brother, a … Read entire article »
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Chidambaram Had Talked Sense To India’s Cabinet Committee On Security
PUNCHLINE Congress in Atonement Mood in Kashmir BY Z. G. Muhammad Of late, the Congress leadership nearly out of the political wilderness has shot into prominence in Jammu and Kashmir. Notwithstanding, having ruled the state through proxies, governors, directly or in coalition for over sixty-six years, the party never got such an attention in the state as it has been getting in the recently for some of its leaders recognizing the historical realities about the Kashmir … Read entire article »
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Untold Story of 1965, How Kashmir Youth Had Taken To Militancy?
Punchline Story of 1965, Retold By Z. G. Muhammad Telling the whole Kashmir story after 1946 is not an easy task. For, multiple twists and turns in the narrative it will take a host of historians and astute political analysts- in fact, an institution to document the story. On 27 July 1946, the Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference unanimously adopted a resolution at Srinagar demanding a totally independent state which will have its own constitution and democratically … Read entire article »
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Is Musharraf’s Four Point Formula A Way Forward?
Four-Point Formula Hangover Some diplomats and journalists are still reeling under it Z.G. Muhammad In August 1998, General Pervez Musharraf resigned as President of Pakistan. Nine years after, some of the former diplomats and journalists of Pakistan continue to suffer from the hangover of his four-point formula on Kashmir. In their estimation, this half-baked formula that for all purposes surrenders the right to self-determination pledged to people of the state by India and guaranteed by the United Nations … Read entire article »
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How to Defeat “Hegemonic Discourse” Is The Question?
Punchline A Word with A Bibliophile By Z.G. Muhammad On the teacher’s day, I had posted a picture of my school teachers on the Facebook. The post caused a phone call from a school time classmate, a surgeon who has returned to his native land after serving Arabs for thirty years- thus obviously not fully conversant with a harsh and seamy side of the contemporary political situation at his birth place. Starting with reminiscences of school days, hailing … Read entire article »
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