Debate In Indian Universities On Kashmir- A silver-lining
PUNCHLINE Indian University Campuses and Kashmir Dispute By Z.G. Muhammad The seventy-year-old Kashmir ‘Dispute’ or ‘Problem’ is graduating towards a resolution. To some friends, overawed by New Delhi’s denials this pithy observation may sound creating false hope. Even a ‘false hope’ as novelist Lois Greiman has said, ‘is better than no hope at all’. Nevertheless, the aim of the statement is not creating false hope. It is based on analysis of the situation as I see it … Read entire article »
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Tales of Downtown Boy Of Srinagar:
Tales of downtown Srinagar: A book that talks of resistance and culture in Kashmir books Updated: Feb 25, 2017 09:09 IST Hilal Mir Hindustan Times Scenes from Lal Chowk, Srinagar in November 2016.(Waseem Andrabi/HT Photo) For the past nine years, Zahid G Mohammad has been writing a column titled ‘Nostalgia’ in the Greater Kashmir newspaper. In his columns, Zahid attempts to reconstruct the politico-cultural history of old Srinagar, where he was born, simply by writing about the mundane and the important facets of mid-twentieth century life in the city. Two collections of these columns have appeared so far: Srinagar: My City, My Dreamland and, recently, Srinagar, The City of Resistance and Culture: Story of Downtown Boy. Both have been published by Gulshan Books Kashmir. Read more ‘Bullet for bullet’ Pakistan policy will worsen J-K situation: Farooq Abdullah Kashmiri youth … Read entire article »
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Predicting 2017 For Kashmir? A Question That Bothers Us.
Coming events Who knows how will be the shape of things to come in Kashmir Z.G. Muhammad In March 2016, no one (not even the best political pundits, who write on every subject relating Kashmir) had visualized a summer and autumn that will go in its history as the year of the “dead-eyes.” That the year for the killing of hundred and odd children and teenagers, ‘pelting to blindness’ over five hundred boys and girls and injuring thousand … Read entire article »
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Natives Have Right To Return, But Big No to Walls of Shame.
Punchline No Walls of Apartheid By Z.G. Muhammad It is my birthright to live in my land. It is of no consequences; if I am an Aborigine belonging to one of the twelve tribes’- the earliest settlers including the Greeks and the Turks or I belong to later arrivals in this land from Persia or the Central Asia. So far I am a state subject morally and legally I have every right to live in the land of my ancestors’. If due to political situations at various points of time I might have migrated to any other part of the sub-continent I have a right to return. This column is not to debate the mass migration of people of our land to British India for fear of corvee and discriminatory and brutal tax … Read entire article »
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Was USA Really Interested in Independent Kashmir Or Communist Propaganda
Punchline Red Herring and Truth By Z. G. Muhammad Like Banquo’s ghost in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, Adlai Stevenson revisits Kashmir’s political narrative at regular intervals. For more than eleven years his ghost persistently hovered over the political horizons of Srinagar, Jammu, and Delhi- inside the court rooms, in the Parliament and public places. It has once again reappeared after a report prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) years ago has been declassified and published in a section … Read entire article »
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Justice For Kashmir Youth- Is the question.
PUNCHLINE The Question of Legal Defence Ensure justice for incarcerated youth of the state By Z.G. Muhammad Let me at the outset admit my ignorance better-translated apathy. Despite, my claim of remaining updated as a Srinagar-based columnist on the Kashmir-related developments, in reality, I knew nothing about the trial of Muzaffar Ahmed Rather of Kulgam district in West Bengal till newspapers in the third week of January 2017, carried a report about a Bengal Court having sentenced him … Read entire article »
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Dr. Javid Iqbal’s Review of Downtown Boy
Srinagar: The City of Resistance and Culture …measuring the nuances of ZGM’s masterly treatise Dr. Javid Iqbal Srinagar, Publish Date: Jan 20 201 ZGM with his Sunday nostalgia in ‘GK’ touches the sensitive cultural chord of thousands of readers in the length and breadth of vale, particularly of ‘Shahr-e-Khas’ the city of Sultans, otherwise known as ‘Downtown’ the heart of Srinagar. Nostalgia craved for a compilation for posterity in sequential form. The book form of nostalgia is tailor-made to … Read entire article »
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