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Predicting 2017 For Kashmir? A Question That Bothers Us.
Coming events Who knows how will be the shape of things to come in Kashmir Z.G. Muhammad In March 2016, no one (not even the best political pundits, who write on every subject relating Kashmir) had visualized a summer and autumn that will go in its history as the year of the “dead-eyes.” That the year for the killing of hundred and odd children and teenagers, ‘pelting to blindness’ over five hundred boys and girls and injuring thousand … Read entire article »
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Natives Have Right To Return, But Big No to Walls of Shame.
Punchline No Walls of Apartheid By Z.G. Muhammad It is my birthright to live in my land. It is of no consequences; if I am an Aborigine belonging to one of the twelve tribes’- the earliest settlers including the Greeks and the Turks or I belong to later arrivals in this land from Persia or the Central Asia. So far I am a state subject morally and legally I have every right to live in the land of my ancestors’. If due to political situations at various points of time I might have migrated to any other part of the sub-continent I have a right to return. This column is not to debate the mass migration of people of our land to British India for fear of corvee and discriminatory and brutal tax … Read entire article »
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Was USA Really Interested in Independent Kashmir Or Communist Propaganda
Punchline Red Herring and Truth By Z. G. Muhammad Like Banquo’s ghost in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, Adlai Stevenson revisits Kashmir’s political narrative at regular intervals. For more than eleven years his ghost persistently hovered over the political horizons of Srinagar, Jammu, and Delhi- inside the court rooms, in the Parliament and public places. It has once again reappeared after a report prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) years ago has been declassified and published in a section … Read entire article »
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Justice For Kashmir Youth- Is the question.
PUNCHLINE The Question of Legal Defence Ensure justice for incarcerated youth of the state By Z.G. Muhammad Let me at the outset admit my ignorance better-translated apathy. Despite, my claim of remaining updated as a Srinagar-based columnist on the Kashmir-related developments, in reality, I knew nothing about the trial of Muzaffar Ahmed Rather of Kulgam district in West Bengal till newspapers in the third week of January 2017, carried a report about a Bengal Court having sentenced him … Read entire article »
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Dr. Javid Iqbal’s Review of Downtown Boy
Srinagar: The City of Resistance and Culture …measuring the nuances of ZGM’s masterly treatise Dr. Javid Iqbal Srinagar, Publish Date: Jan 20 201 ZGM with his Sunday nostalgia in ‘GK’ touches the sensitive cultural chord of thousands of readers in the length and breadth of vale, particularly of ‘Shahr-e-Khas’ the city of Sultans, otherwise known as ‘Downtown’ the heart of Srinagar. Nostalgia craved for a compilation for posterity in sequential form. The book form of nostalgia is tailor-made to … Read entire article »
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Insulting Freedom Struggle Is Sacrilegious
Punchline Abusing People Sacrifices. Z.G. Muhammad Like the city of ‘C’ in Jesse Ball’s dystopian novel, the Curfew, the thousand-year-old city of the sun- Srinagar is locked every year on 13 July. Not only more than a million humans with windows of their houses latched cannot breathe freely inside their homes. Interestingly, even the street dogs for straying into the quarantined roads land in the animal pounds. For past twenty-seven years, the exercise is repeated religiously … Read entire article »
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A Word with “Cocooned” Historiographers of Kashmir.
A word with Historiographers Z. G. Muhammad It was 26 March 2013, Sheikh Mohammad Usman, one of the leading publishers of Srinagar had passed away. A motley group of historians and writers had come for the condolence to his residence in Bemina. It was a sunny forenoon, outside the house of the bereaved family five of us Dr. Abdul Ahad, Professor Mohammad Ishaq Khan, M. Ashraf, Dr. Javid Iqbal and I got involved in a discussion- … Read entire article »
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