Mythology is not History- It cannot pass as history.
PUNCHLINE Mythology is not History And history is not mythology in essence By Z.G. Muhammad I am a simpleton. Little did I know that I had ruffled feathers and made earlobes turn pink till a grocer in Maharaja Bazar told me about it? I had not imagined in wildest of my dreams that my innocuous statement of facts that ‘pluralistic and tolerant society was born with the advent of Islam in Kashmir and till then it was a … Read entire article »
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US NEW AFGHAN POLICY AND KASHMIR?
PUNCHLINE US Afghanistan and Kashmir By Z.G. Muhammad The burial of the Kashmir Dispute without its resolution on the basis of justice and fair play is impossible. The changing strategic partnership or global equations cannot write an epitaph on the seventy-year-old dispute that continues to be recognized as an international problem and threat to peace in the region. Even, Stephen Cohen, despite his negative approach toward Kashmir recognizes ‘Kashmir could trigger off military response either by … Read entire article »
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35 A AND The UNSC’s concern?
Punchline Demography Is the Concern It is naïve to believe that the Article 370-A or Article 35-A is outside the resistance narrative BY Z.G.Muhammad Should the abrogation of the Article 35-A of the Indian Constitution be the cause of concern for the resistance leadership ? This debate was kick-started by an “electoral-politician” – who saw debating and agitating on the subject only as his prerogative and that of politicians in his tribe. Like many others genuinely … Read entire article »
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Mountbatten didn’t promise Kashmir to Sardar Patel
PUNCHLINE Apple Outside Basket By Z.G. Muhammad Z Lord Mountbatten, before sailing across Indian Ocean lock, stock and barrel did yeoman’s service to India- a great favor, which most towering Indian National Congress leaders could not have done. He had an option to leave India ‘with a fatal fragmentation into scores of states to be headed by ‘flocks of glided peacocks, the Maharajas and Nawabs.’ In theory, the British cabinet had also agreed that these rulers ‘who … Read entire article »
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Indian Prime Ministers: Hurriyat Is Credible Party?
New Delhi and the Hurriyat The relationship has got more complicated than ever Z. G. Muhammad New Delhi’s present attitude towards the Hurriyat, particularly after 2016 has been unjust. (In this column, the Hurriyat clubs all the resistance organisation that in 1993 where its constituents). In 24 years history of relations between the Hurriyat and New Delhi, it has not always been so. The two have had a love hate relationships. Let me use a more appropriate phrase; … Read entire article »
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Not Cult-Leaders But People Are Heroes Of Kashmir Struggle
Punchline People: The Real Heroes Of Kashmir Resistance BY Z. G. Muhammad In our case, it is the people who have been protagonists of the resistance movement- the real heroes. It is they who have perpetuated the resistance narrative. It is they who have defeated machinations of the ‘hegemonic powers’ conjuring alternative narratives for subverting the peoples’ movements for their rights. In stating this, I don’t intend to demean the ideologues who at different junctures of our history … Read entire article »
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Farooq Abdullah’s One-Time Truth – New Delhi Should Heed To It
Punchline Farooq Abdullah’s One-Time Truth By Z.G. Muhammad For his failure to identify with the popular sentiment- the sentiment of the overwhelming majority, like many others in the “power politics” of Jammu and Kashmir there is more than one reason to distrust Farooq Abdullah’s words. Nevertheless, wisdom lies in giving credit to what is good in any action of a disagreeable or disliked person. Known for making outlandish and weird statements, senior scion of the Abdullah family on … Read entire article »
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