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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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Kashmir Diaspora and New UN Secretary General
Punchline New UN Chief And Kashmir By Z. G. Muhammad For its clarity, history, and facts, the story of the Kashmir Dispute is the best copy that an objective journalist can ever write. For it being well knit any interpolation made in it can easily be made out by an ordinary student of politics. From whatever source material you look at the story, it travels into the mind without any ambiguities. To discerning eyes and … Read entire article »
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Downtown Boy Witness To An Era – Book Review
Story of a Downtown Boy Author has really given us back whatever he has experienced in his life Dr. A. Wahid “Srinagar: Story of Downtown Boy” is yet another book pertaining to birth burg of the author, Zahid G Mohammad. The book is a compendium of the series of his articles published every Sunday in Greater Kashmir. When I read this book, the famous verse of the poet Sahir Ludhyanwi came to my mind: “Duniya ney tajrubaat-o-hawadis ki shakal … Read entire article »
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Resolution Of Kashmir Dispute Lies In Its History
Punchline Narrative-History Symbiosis Z. G. Muhammad Thanks to the social media, for it’s providing a platform for the people to express themselves- to those also who otherwise would not respond and react to newspaper writings and books. Some old-time friends do not like some contemporary blog writers and columnists including me for analyzing the current political situation in our land in its historical context. Some of them having a ‘status quoist’ mindset want writers, analysts, … Read entire article »
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Seeding Confusion in Kashmir Narrative and Rent A Writers
Punchline Seeding Confusion In Kashmir Narrative By Z.G. Muhammad Seeding confusion for subverting the resistance movements is an old trick. It is a lethal weapon that the dominant forces have been using for altering the paradigms of the struggles for justice and fair play. For subverting the resistance movements, and dissuading the struggling people from their goals the dominant forces confound the public mind by imposing alternative discourses and conjuring dominant phraseology. For, fostering and fortifying the dominant discourse … Read entire article »
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