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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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Kashmir: Dusting Archives To Know Beyond Dulat-Durrani Discourse
Punchline Dusting Archive To Know More Kashmir Dispute Has Solution In Its Archives By Z. G. Muhammad Sometimes a new book for its contested contents makes one dust the archives and look for answers and explanations for the controversies raised in it. In a situation like that of our where people are caught up in a morass of political uncertainty and are struggling for ending it many times, books are sponsored by the establishment to cloud the … 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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Spymasters Dulat-Durrani Book and Hurriyat Conference Controversy
Z.G. Muhammad In Pakistan, it is rare of rarest happenings when a spy chief in the office or out of office is publicly summoned to GHQ the headquarters of Pakistan Army, Rawalpindi to explain his conduct. A host of army generals in the country created by Jinnah ‘through his indomitable will’ from General Mohammad Asghar Khan, ‘Generals in Pakistan Politics (1958- 1982) to General K.M. Arif, ‘Estranged Neighbours – India and Pakistan 1947-2010’, have penned … Read entire article »
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Spymaster Book And Assad Durrani’s Take on the Hurriyat
Thus Spake Spymasters Dulat and Durrani By Z. G. Muhammad In Pakistan, it is rare of rarest happenings when a spy chief in the office or out of office is publicly summoned to GHQ the headquarters of Pakistan Army, Rawalpindi to explain his conduct. A host of army generals in the country created by Jinnah ‘through his indomitable will’ from General Mohammad Asghar Khan, ‘Generals in Pakistan Politics (1958- 1982) to General K.M. Arif, ‘Estranged Neighbours … Read entire article »
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My Days in Bombay: When Kashmir Had a Consulate In Commercial Capital of India
Nostalgia Visa For Kashmir ZGM I had almost entered into a nuptial tie with the Arabian Sea. In the late evenings, I felt incomplete without sitting on a cement bench on the marine drive or the parapets at the Gateway of India and looking into the vastness of the sea. Many a time, the evening zephyr and the high waves in symphony waxed a prosaic person like me lyrical. Someone has rightly said, “There’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.” I almost strolled on a daily basis after dinner to the Gateway of India, which was ten to twelve minutes’ walk from my residence. And whenever I had a friend from Srinagar we would have … Read entire article »
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Blood-Spilling On LOC, Solution Lies In Birth of The Temporary Line
Punchline Z. G. Muhammad It was yet another dark day for people living on the bloody line dividing Jammu and Kashmir. On Friday, fire-spewing mortar guns that have been thunderously roaring like man eaters for past seventy years devoured ten more human beings and wounded dozens critically- perhaps disabled for life. Four civilians including a husband and wife and a Border Security Soldier where killed in R. S. Pura and Arina sectors in Jammu. On the other … Read entire article »
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