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Kashmir: Theft Of Holy Relic Of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) Demystified By Z.G. Muhammad
Book Review: Theft Of Holy Relic Demystified. Name of the Book: Kashmir Shock Fury Turmoil Theft of Prophet’s Relic Outrage and Spin-Off Author: Khalid Bashir Ahmad Publisher: Gulshan Books New Delhi/Srinagar Pages: 446 Price Paper Back: 795 By Z.G. Muhammad Writers often find themselves irresistibly drawn to certain subjects, especially those shrouded in mystery and intrigue. When a topic is veiled in mist and fog over time, it becomes obscured, enigmatic, and ripe for exploration. The theft of the Holy Relic of Prophet … Read entire article »
Filed under: Book Review, Kashmir-Talk
My Memoir: My Father Fond Memories of My Pets Jackie and Tommy
Part VII My Memoir: My Father Death of Tommy- My Pomeranian Dog Z G . Muhammad Z.G. Muhammad Numaish had become our dream world, and with father’s juniors holding the fort, we felt no less than princes during our visits. The grand illuminations, the music at the bandstand filling the exhibition ground with lilting tunes and the well of the death with a motorcyclist playing stunts inside wooden well had its thrill for my elder sibling and … Read entire article »
Filed under: Kashmir-Talk, NostalgiaKashmir, NostalgoaKashmir, Z. G. Muhammad
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 »
Filed under: Editor's Take, Point of view
Inside Stories About Kashmir and Indian Biographies
PUNCHLINE Biographies and the Narratives By Z.G. Muhammad “An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned,” writes an author of Indian origin. There is some truth in his assertion but it cannot be the whole truth. Notwithstanding, autobiographies and memoirs being overwhelmingly subjective, they do provide warp and weft for recording history of the political struggles. This genera of literature, besides providing an insight into behind the scene happenings that have impacted history and politics of a nation also … Read entire article »
Filed under: Kashmir-Talk
2014- Kashmir and Afghanistan
Z.G. Muhammad Some fifty-nine years back Josef Korbel wrote, ‘India and Pakistan continue to dissipate their wealth, their strength and their energy on a near fratricidal struggle in which the hitherto almost unknown State of Kashmir has become the physical battleground.’ Trillions of dollars are spent on building arsenals at the cost of development of tens of millions living a sub-human life. People of the two countries have not been paying heavy prices for the wars … Read entire article »
Filed under: Editor's Take, Kashmir-Talk
Why Did Plebiscite Front Die?
Z.G. MUHAMMAD On a cold but not freezing February afternoon pushing my way through crowded and crushing Residency Road to a nearby bookshop I was stopped by an old time Plebiscite Front worker. Given to intolerance of some contemporary “top” leaders, “clerics” and their “hangers-on”, initially, I thought, he has not liked some of my writings about once towering leader or his scions. There was no anger on his face but from expressions on his face, I … Read entire article »
Filed under: Editor's Take, Kashmir-Talk
Shimla Agreement and Kashmir
Z.G. MUHAMMAD On 2nd July 1972, Bhutto announced that his delegation would be departing following morning. ‘Surprisingly, during Bhutto’s farewell call on Mrs. Gandhi a breakthrough was made following some deletions and amendments to the final draft.’ Of the amendments made, the most relevant to J&K were inclusion of word “no prejudice clause’ in paragraph 4 (ii) and it read, “ In Jammu and Kashmir, the line of control resulting from the ceasefire of December 17, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Editor's Take