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Our Poet, Scholar Teacher Pandit Pitamber Nath Dhar Fani
Nostalgia A Pandit Poet Teacher By ZGM Sometimes, for ‘angelic pureness’ of our times, I start believing that we were children of the medieval times. That lived in kinship with nature. The sun rising behind the Zabarwan peaks splashing everything with gold and through latticed windows stealthily entering into our bedroom, woke up my siblings and me. The ringing bells of goats and ewes and herdsman calling loudly goat’s and ewe’s milk for two annas two ounce reminded … Read entire article »
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Declassify Kashmir: Let people in India Know the Whole Truth
PUNCHLINE Declassify Kashmir By Z. G. Muhammad Thirty-five years back, like Banquo’s ghost, a couple of questions haunted my mind at regular intervals. Why Sheikh Abdullah, the man Friday of Jawaharlal Nehru who had greeted Indian troops on their landing at Srinagar airport on October 27, 1947, and made the “accession” of the State possible was six years later unceremoniously dismissed as Prime Minister of the State and imprisoned. Moreover, if there was something outside … Read entire article »
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Peace in South Asia- New Delhi Should Not in American Trap
Punchline Peace in South-Asia By Z.G. Muhammad For quite some time, there have been extensive debates about the peace and stability in South-Asia. Many have been seeing it in danger – a nuclear flashpoint- and a threat to world peace. These speculations have become louder after President Donald Trump in his Tweet on the eve of New Year ‘chastised Pakistan for receiving 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years from his country and in … Read entire article »
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Nostalgia: Our Cultural Kinship with Kashghar
Nostalgia Abdullah Nankabab Wala ZGM Sometimes, recalling my childhood, I start believing that every one of us in our right was a Michelangelo- ‘and for us, every block of stone had a statue in it,’ and sculptor inside us always discovered it. From a small grass shoot to a tiny attractive black and purple beetle moving gracefully underneath the turf everything around stimulated our imagination and we conjured a world of our own on our ‘mental-canvas.’ … Read entire article »
Filed under: Kashmir-Talk, Perspectives
Kashmir Resolution and Christopher Snedden’s New Book
PUNCHLINE Christopher Snedden’s Second Book By Z. G. Muhammad Four years back Christopher Snedden, an Australian political scientist, politico-strategic analyst, academic researcher and author instantly became a familiar name in media and academia in Jammu and Kashmir – on both sides of the dividing line. Moreover, his book, ‘Kashmir the Unwritten History, published in India by Harper Collins, caused a flutter in New Delhi. For its diplomatic and political import internationally, and significance to the … Read entire article »
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Pictures Speak speak louder than word- Our photojournalist have a role
Punchline Pictures Speak Such Silence Is Louder Than Words By Z. G. Muhammad Photos tell a story- a forceful story that even a hundred page book on history can barely tell. Some photographs live up to proverbial million dollar stories. Some days back, a French photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson, historic picture clicked in 1948 at iconic small plateau Kastur-Pend atop the Koh-i-Maran hillock was sold at an auction in New York at 32,500 dollars. This perhaps … Read entire article »
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Kashmir Conflict and International Literature
Punchline Fiction Also Has A Role Resistance, Conflict, dispute and aspiration -fiction has it all By Z.G. Muhammad Someone has said it and said it beautifully, ‘words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.’ Truly, once the stories of the resistance movements or the fallouts of the political conflicts become part of the international literature, it makes a difference. It very … Read entire article »
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