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The Wailing Museums Of Kashmir: The agonized story of parents of martyred children
Punchline The ‘Wailing Museums’ By Z.G. Muhammad On a couple of times, I noticed a man wearing grief on his face as withering leaves on hackberries on graveyards strolling on dusty lawns of the Srinagar court. At some other times, I had spotted him silently sitting in corners of the canopies erected by the human rights activists or the resistance leadership to mark the world human rights day and remind the world about the human rights violations … 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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Shamala Mufti’s Memoir And My Nostalgia
Nostalgia Connecting To A Memoir ZGM Everyone has a tale to tell and a nostalgia to share. Nostalgia is cathartic. Nonetheless, it is equally a life-writing that goes beyond biography. It not only ‘encompasses everything from the complete life to day-in-the-life, from the fictional to factional’ but it also connects us with others and their immediate past, social and cultural moorings. Some days back, a doctoral thesis by one of our young United States based scholar … Read entire article »
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Abrogation of Article35A – Is Biggest Impending Existential Threat
Concern For All Article 35-A is the meeting point for all divergent viewpoints By Z.G. Muhammad The date 6 August 2018, has been hanging like the sword of Damocles on the heads of the citizens of Jammu and Kashmir, across the religious, regional, ethnic and linguistic divide. On this date, the Supreme Court of India is to hear Public Interest Litigations on the Article 35A dealing with permanent residents of Jammu and Kashmir. In 2014, immediately after … Read entire article »
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Nostalgia: When Nehru Doctrine Failed in Kashmir
Nostalgia News And Iron Curtains ZGM Someone has said that “I’d trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.” He has perhaps said so for the magical powers of nostalgia; enabling one to rediscover the dreams in our eyes and songs on our lips; we grew up with. Of course, it removes ‘rough edges from the good old days,’ but sometimes like a search engine, the mind makes a connection with the bitter past … Read entire article »
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Nostalgia of Generation Born With Black-Ribbon’s Tied To Head
Nostalgia Mourning A Young Songster ZGM My efforts fail me, in spite of trying to drown myself in the rhythmic Coke Studio music to forget the chilling stories coming from the South Kashmir and to erase images of silted throats of children and pellet meshed rubicund faces of girl students like ‘summer tempest’ tears soak my withering cheeks. Many times, on seeing dumbfounded mothers sitting by the side of bodies of their slain sons I start singing with … Read entire article »
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A Clarion Call For Kashmiris: Wake Up To Tell Your Story
PUNCHLINE Need For Our Own ‘Brookings.’ Z. G. Muhammad My take on the book, ‘Kashmir Glimpse of History and Story of Struggle’ by Saifuddin Soz the past week in this column kick-started an important debate on the social media. Minus, some unsavoury remarks by some friends on the book and the scholarship of the author, the debate generated was important in as much as, it raised some important questions about the history writing in Kashmir and its … Read entire article »
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