Srinagar My City My Dreamland
Srinagar : My City my Dreamland: By Altaf Bashir The book contains 277 pages, and costs 695 INR. There is a choice for students who can purchase the book with a discount offered at the bookstore in Srinagar. The author is well known columnist in daily Greater Kashmir who has written those scripts on Sunday column ‘Nostalgia’ and has assembled them to present before the public in book form, with new things added to it which one … Read entire article »
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Abdul Majid Zargar has a viewpoint
The Supreme Court judgment in Pathribal fake encounter case constitutes a severe assault on the right to life of common people living in conflict areas like Kashmir. Following Chittisinghpora massacre of Sikhs in the year 2000, five innocent civilians were virtually dragged from their beds and killed in cold blood by personnel of 7 Rashtriya Rifles. The victims were labeled as LET mercenaries responsible behind the chittisinghpora incident. Even the then Union Home Minster, Lal Krishen Advani flew from New-Delhi to shower praises on the Army unit responsible for the Act. When the identity of five men became known as innocent civilians, protests intensified across Anantnag, forcing the government to order a judicial inquiry. On April 3, 2000, the protesters marched towards the Deputy Commissioner’s office. Nine of them were … Read entire article »
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Indira-Sheikh Agreement 1975 Revisited
INDIRA-SHEIKH ACCORD ABDUL MAJID ZARGAR The Indira-Sheikh accord of 1975 is in news once again. Speaking on the sidelines of a function “Sakshaar Bharat Yatra” organized by JK Bharat Vigyan, Dr. Farooq Abdullah, the union Minster of New & renewable energy has said that nothing was settled in 1975 accord. Earlier his brother Dr. Mustafa kamal stated that the accord was not signed by Sheikh Mohd. Abdullah blissfully forgetting that his father assumed the chief Minstership of … Read entire article »
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Summing up SRINAGAR (Book Review)
ZGM’s Nostalgia shapes into a book bringing alive the stories from the city that once was Kashmir in recent years has witnessed a surge of books. Most of the books tell us the grim stories of the two decades. Most of these books have a single theme this one, but this book – Srinagar My City My Dreamland – is a compendium of articles written in Nostalgia column of Greater Kashmir over last few years, touching … Read entire article »
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