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Our Childhood Spiritual Odysseys
A view of Srinagar City Nostalgia Growing up amongst Friars By Author Z G Muhammad There was something beautiful- something extraordinary about our city. It is incomprehensible. At least, I have not understood it. Something has been about it that had made hundreds of Saints, Sages and Sufis converging on it, making it a permanent abode and ultimately the final resting place- the shrines. The lofty minarets and spires of these shrines, centuries after continue to wrap up the city I was born in and brought … Read entire article »
Filed under: Editor's Take, Kashmir-Talk, Memeiors
Prof. Hameedah Nayeem Looks at Significance of the Story of Downtown Boy
What is in a Title? Significance of the title Story of Downtown Boy— and the Issues thereof Prof. Hameedah Nayeem Last week when two books were released in the university’s Ibni Khaldoon Hall, It set me thinking about the significance of the title of G M Zahid ‘s (Z.G. Muhammad’s) book- Srinagar, the City of Culture and Resistance: Story of Downtown Boy as a pointer to understand its genre. On the one hand, it is about Srinagar, the … Read entire article »
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