Peace Watch

Torch Bearer” A magnum opus that should be read by everyone PUNCHLINE Z.G. MUHAMMAD Smaller Default Larger Not telling the truth candidly is disappointing. That too, when literati, writers and poets submit to expediency and fail to sing songs of compassion for their compatriots. Of late, I have started believing that the looming clouds of disappointment have started vanishing from our literary scene and we are on threshold of a renaissance – a literary renaissance in our own right.  One, after another book telling the peoples tale are added to ‘Kashmir literature   shelf.’ Some two or three weeks earlier Shafi Ahmed’s novel ‘The Half Widow’, narrating woeful tale of hundreds of Kashmir women whose husbands were subjected enforced disappearance was released in Srinagar. This was second in queue, to internationally acclaimed ‘stunningly poignant’ story of … Read entire article »

  Trapped in inertia and choked for years Kashmir writers   have broken their silence. They have started telling their story- telling it boldly. “He who writes his story; Inherits the land of that story, wrote years back great Palestine poet Mahmud Darwish. That Kashmiris are yet to tell their story- truthful story to the world has been an overwhelming grouse with the common people.  Like many others, I also craved for having our own literature in the vein of internationally recognized, ‘Palestine Literature’- a literature that ‘takes its testimony from the place it is born- ‘a literature written within a specific historical context- a context which may be immediately situated within the contemporary struggle.’ There can be no denying, many important European and Americans historians, writers and novelists during past sixty year … Read entire article »