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Strangulating Voices of Dissent Pushes Youth To The Wall
Punchline Geelani Release- A Way Forward By Z.G. Muhammad It might have been festive day for nonagenarian Syed Ali Shah Geelani, when he offered congregational Friday prayers, obligatory on all Muslims at the Jamia Masjid, Hyderpora, some two hundred yards from his residence. For about, three thousands days, five times a day Muezzin had been calling on him from the Masjid in his neighborhood to join the congregational prayers, but for his house detention, he could not respond to … Read entire article »
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Autobiographical Notes Bombay Days 7 : Of Sea Pilgrimage Days
Nostalgia Bonds of Fraternity ZGM “City life is millions of people being lonesome together,” this quote by famed American essayist and poet Henry David Thoreau aptly summed up life in Bombay for me. This metropolitan, where streams of humanity glided like inanimate logs in the river Jhelum in our childhood was a big a contrast to the downtown Srinagar- my birth place; where swallows flying across traffic less roads with loops and rolls like sabrejets, provided companionship … Read entire article »
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Geelani: Has Not Passed On Baton
PUNCHLINE Syed Ali Geelani- Baton Not Passed On By Z. G. Muhammad Some days back, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, decided to step aside and passed on the baton of the Tahreek Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir to his second in command Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai. On the expected lines, the decision taken at a Shoora meeting of the Tahreek Hurriyat made it to headlines in the newspapers across the sub-continent. The decision caused some columns and news analysis … 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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The Idioms of Hubris – To Insult people of Jammu and Kashmir
The Idioms of Hubris By Z. G. Muhammad At times some words or phrases or idioms, more particularly those maliciously spoken to demean a nation’s pride get badly stuck up in one’s mind. Like witches, they haunt even in the bed. These cannot be jettisoned from the mind unless talked about boldly and candidly. For couple of days, an idiom ‘barking up the wrong tree’ has been bothering my mind. It had a resonated … Read entire article »
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Autobiographic Notes Doctors Who Loved Kashmiris
Nostalgia Our Philanthropist Businessmen By ZGM Time ticked by, I no more felt lonely in the maddening crowds of the metropolitan city. I no more saw everything around me, grey–insipid and colorless. My distressing feelings: ‘I had nothing to contribute; I played no part; I was on the edge had vaporized- soothing and freshening sea breezes had a lot to do in it.’ Now, in all its seasons, shades and colors I loved the vivacity and vibrancy of the … Read entire article »
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UN Commissioner In Asking Access to Kashmir Is Not Blasphemous
Punchline Kashmir on Diplomatic Turf Z. G. Muhammad India and Pakistan have earned a ‘sad and bad distinction.’ Perhaps in the world, only these two nations since their birth as independent countries are endlessly engaged in war of attrition. The two important South Asian players, now nuclear powers have continuously been exchanging mortar shells and fighting battles along the line Jammu and Kashmir. The line drawn by the United Nations Security to stop the waring countries from fighting … Read entire article »
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