The Ward Four Boys Rendezvous With A Legendary Craftsman
Nostalgia Ward Four Boys ZGM Stories of many of the ward four boys, like other downtown Srinagar boys, are strewn across the countries, yet their loyalty is etched to the maze of narrow streets, lanes and by-lanes they grew up in and played games; hide and seek, hopscotch and tip-cat. Hitched to their roots, on a mere mention of their birth burg reminiscence cascade like high mountain brooks and pilot them down the memory lane, and … Read entire article »
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Understanding Importance of 35 A To Demography Of Kashmir
Article 35-A in peril Need to safeguard our constitutional right Abdul Majid Zargar After repeated adjournments, Supreme Court of India is finally expected to hear the arguments in respect of Article 35A on 6th of August 2018. In July 2014, soon after BJP was elected to power in New-Delhi, an RSS backed Non-Governmental organization, “We the citizens”, filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the validity of this article on the ground of its having been inserted … Read entire article »
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My Bombay Days: Looking For Manto In the Island of Giants
Nostalgia Island of Giants ZGM The tinsel world of India has an intrinsic charm- a beauty that makes its distinct from any other metropolises in the sub-continent. Those, who adopt the city as their abode remotely move out of it. Those who live in it hardly forget about it. For many, like me, the city in all its shades rings like Dr. Faustus mesmerizing lines on seeing the Helen of Troy, ‘was this the face.’ Like a magnet … Read entire article »
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My Days in Bombay: Searching for Inner Peace in Tinsel City
Nostalgia Off To Haji Malang ZGM Many spiritual experiences can’t be captured in words. Offering late night prayers during sultry days on an islet with the soothing breeze blowing on all sides from the Arabian Sea had a unique spiritual elation. Perhaps, it was as good an experience as that of whirling dance when ‘the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.’ Nevertheless, for me, it had the same inner solace that I experienced as a young … Read entire article »
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Days in Bombay. Khawaja Bazar in Bombay
. Nostalgia Khoja Bazar in Bombay By ZGM Truly, the metropolis, those days for all its shades and colors, was more entrancing than a rainbow. Then, the orange swallow-tailed flag had not taken over the landscape of the city that for more than a century had seen ‘professional promises’ of many enterprising young men like greatest South-Asian Muslim leader, M. A. Jinnah bloom to full. It had been a sanctuary that did not distinguish between colors and … Read entire article »
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Respond To Clarion Call Retreat Pellet Guns
PUNCHLINE Haunting ‘Dead Eyes’ By Z.G. Muhammad On 15 March 1929, Sir Albino Banerjee, a Bengali Christen, who for two years had been Foreign and Political Minister of Maharaja Hari Singh had observed that the rulers had been treating “Mohammadan population” worst than “cattle.” Ninety years later, when the idea of governance in the world has undergone a sea change, and colonialism has crashed the mindset of those in the corridors of “hegemonic authority” in the state has … Read entire article »
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Autobiographical notes Bombay 5- When Our Boys Were Thugged
Nostalgia ‘Blue-Collar’ Boys from Srinagar ZGM ‘The City of Ships’ to use Walt Whitman’s line, ‘proud and passionate city! mettlesome, mad, extravagant city!’ was now no more strange to me. The maddening crowds on its streets, the huge tides kissing the shores like a passionate lover over an over again were no more alien to me. The evening scenes outside the old campus of the Bombay University reminiscent of some romantic scenes in an Urdu novel … Read entire article »
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