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Hurriyat (M) Going Pakistan What For Is The Question.
Story of Paradigm Shift Z.G. Muhammad Are we a paranoid people- you and me included? Is it, fear rooted in my mind that makes me ponder over something, I would in normal course dismiss as nonevent and of consequences. Chairman APHC (M) and four other members of his executives’ council are visiting Pakistan in November. What is ‘big deal’ about it? For past many years, these leaders have been visiting Islamabad and meeting men in power. Now their visits to the country and meeting leaders’ is no news. Why should it engage my attention, is the question. There were times when Kashmir leader visiting Islamabad made big news. In 1964, when Sheikh Abdullah at the behest of Indian Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru visited Islam it made big news on two counts: one, Sheikh was … Read entire article »
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I am Proud! I am a Srinagar Downtown Boy
The Downtown Boy Everyone in Kashmir has a story to tell. The octogenarian has a tale to tell- he has seen towering South Asian leaders at best of their eloquence addressing hundreds of thousands in the Muslim Park and in our own Red Square. The septuagenarian has his stories to tell about the royal river procession and Russian Communist leaders in majestic boats rowed through the Jhelum. And their rehashing the ‘dominant discourse’ and giving it proletarian flavor. That born ‘at the stroke of midnight hour, when world was sleeping and India awoke to freedom’ and when South-Asian Muslims after gusty storms like weaverbirds were dexterously making a home out of straw, has his narrative to share. Moreover, the Young man bubbling with fervor and boiling with fury has his own … Read entire article »
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Poor Kashmir Chief Ministers
I have no incisive study of the governance in the state. The state administration has not been what in journalistic parlance is termed as ‘my beat’. If the state is governed badly or very badly or governance in the state is conspicuous by its absence, I cannot say with absolute authority. That I believe is the domain of the “Peter Duckers” in the media. However, to my understanding the governance in the state cannot be delinked from its larger political narrative. On October 30, 1947, New Delhi installed Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah as the first chief administrator; on August 9, 1953, it dismissed Abdullah and placed Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad in the saddle. Towards the close of 1963, in New Delhi’s estimation Bakshi lost his utility, like his predecessor in office … Read entire article »
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What The Act Says
Constitutional validity of Jammu and Kashmir (Residential and Commercial Tenancy) Act, 2012 LAW G. Q. WANI The rent control legislation with respect to houses and shops is State- list subject under the Constitution of India. That is why each State has enacted its own Rent Control Act as per the needs and requirements of the State. The Rent Control Act has stood the test of constitutional validity on the ground of social welfare legislation as it “protects tenants … Read entire article »
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Kashmiris Are A Brave Nation
I have come to believe as people we are naïve. Our earlier leadership was naïve. Our contemporary leadership is not a shade better than the old crop. Moreover naivety’ is our “tragic flaw.”It has been but for this ‘tragic flaw’ that despite offering heroic resistance against any kind of colonization – minds or territory, people have been landing in the troubled waters and the morasses of uncertainties. The story of Kashmir- your story and my story has been that of valor and courage. On all-important junctures of our history, we have risen in revolt against the desperadoes and fought battles against the usurpers. Historically, it would be unjust to believe that this nation has been accepting cruelty, intimidation and terror as its destiny. I see some ‘commentators’ singing in sync with … Read entire article »
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Kashmir Story –
It has been an enigmatic story that of birth with a bang and death with a whimper. In our state political organizations wither away much before they realize their political objectives but irrespective of their melting down political sentiments that these organizations articulate survives… The melting starts as and when the political organizations fail to synchronize their political stand with that of the popular political sentiment. My belief is grounded in the seventy-one year political history of the state. The cause for the phenomenon of wilting and dying of political organizations in the state engaging my attention has been recent political postures and statements by one of the premier political organization. For the past nineteen years, the organization has been on scene. Its history has not been different from other political … Read entire article »
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Dr. Iqbal: The Best Articulated Muslim Response
Iqbal continues be the protagonist- not in a work of fiction but in the complex contemporary South Asian story. He in fact through his thoughts and ideas rewrote the history and changed geography of the Sub-Continent. ‘Iqbal’, Dr. Muhammad Suhyel Umar in his preface to a compilation of papers by eminent international scholars titled “Muhammad Iqbal a Contemporary”, very aptly writes, “Iqbal is the best articulated Muslim response to totalizing claims of Modernity that the … Read entire article »
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