14 July ‘International “Dead Eyes Day”- A Call To UN
Punchline ‘International “Dead Eyes” Day’ Z.G. Muhammad Sitting on my desk on Saturday to write my weekly column, instantly I remembered it was 25 March. From 2008 the day is observed as the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. A memorial named as the Ark of Return has been erected at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to honor the victims of slavery permanently. Such memorials, perpetuating … 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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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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Kashmir Diaspora and New UN Secretary General
Punchline New UN Chief And Kashmir By Z. G. Muhammad For its clarity, history, and facts, the story of the Kashmir Dispute is the best copy that an objective journalist can ever write. For it being well knit any interpolation made in it can easily be made out by an ordinary student of politics. From whatever source material you look at the story, it travels into the mind without any ambiguities. To discerning eyes and … Read entire article »
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Downtown Boy Witness To An Era – Book Review
Story of a Downtown Boy Author has really given us back whatever he has experienced in his life Dr. A. Wahid “Srinagar: Story of Downtown Boy” is yet another book pertaining to birth burg of the author, Zahid G Mohammad. The book is a compendium of the series of his articles published every Sunday in Greater Kashmir. When I read this book, the famous verse of the poet Sahir Ludhyanwi came to my mind: “Duniya ney tajrubaat-o-hawadis ki shakal … Read entire article »
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Resolution Of Kashmir Dispute Lies In Its History
Punchline Narrative-History Symbiosis Z. G. Muhammad Thanks to the social media, for it’s providing a platform for the people to express themselves- to those also who otherwise would not respond and react to newspaper writings and books. Some old-time friends do not like some contemporary blog writers and columnists including me for analyzing the current political situation in our land in its historical context. Some of them having a ‘status quoist’ mindset want writers, analysts, … Read entire article »
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The Kashmir “Civil Resistance” and Peoples’ Resolve and Beyond?
Punchline Intifadas and Peoples’ Amnesia By Z.G. Muhammad In the eighty-five years long contemporary resistance movement of Jammu and Kashmir the 2016 ‘intifada’ so far has been the longest. In many ways, compared to earlier ‘intifadas’ it has been an unprecedented and extraordinary story of sufferings and resilience. In the history of Kashmir and the resistance movements across the globe as rightly said by Ellen Barry of the New York Times, “2016 will almost certainly be remembered as … Read entire article »
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