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Looking at 2014 From Kashmir Perspective
It is not going to be same. TIt is not going to be same. Two crucial years are ahead, not for Kashmir only but for the entire Southwest Asian region. True, Washington and its NATO allies have envisioned their future in the region after 2014, but it would be too early to predict with absolute authority about the shape of thing to come. Ostensibly, the emerging scenario holds less of promise and more of peril. There are more of questions than answers about the climax. One of the important questions that have been bothering experts in the region is that if South Asia was not once again slipping into the cold war and New Delhi was not becoming its front- ranked ally of US in the region. This South Asian concern … Read entire article »
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Satire and Resistence
Satire and Resistance Presentation By Zahid G Muhammad on Zareef Ahmed Zareef’s book Taran Garee on 28-5- 2012 in Kashmir University Mr. Chairman, Justice B. A. Kiramani and fellow panelist and friends in the hall. Very good afternoon to all. I thank Zareef Ahmed Zareef and Riyaz Rufai Librarian of Allama Iqbal Library for providing me an opportunity to share my views on Zareef Sahib poetical collection Tarangaree. I am not an authority on Kashmir literature. A galaxy … Read entire article »
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Rasul Saab Kashmir’s Own Sir Syed
It was the day. The day, I and my peers waited for months together. It was a loveable wait, as loveable as lover’s legendry longing for beloved in classical love stories. The wait for the day started, as I remember from the day the school opened after long winter vacations. I very vividly remember the preparation for the founder’s day —- the Rasul Sahib’s day as it was popularly known started immediately after the annual examinations would be finished. Those days’ annual examinations would be conducted in the month of March. The sword of examinations and tests did not hang on children’s head for the complete year- tests did not make children psychological wrecks, these were biannual affair “shashmahi” and “salana” examinations. The shashmahi examinations did not get on children’s nerves. … Read entire article »
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My Nile Tells Stories of Agony and Ecstasy
It was an odyssey- a grand odyssey: ‘sailing along the past’ with the great Sultans of Kashmir, sharing pinnacles of their glories, celebrating their victories and tasting their benevolences. Singing hymns in chorus with the great saints of the yore and living mystic experiences with the great mystics of the land. Suffering with the multitudes fleeced alive by the beastly rulers and then hanged from the cantilever bridges like sheep from hooks in a butcher’s … Read entire article »
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Three Books on Kashmir
Kashmir tumbled into the basket of international disputes on January 1, 1948. It was none other than the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru who decided to put it in the UN basket. Ever since that day it has been hot subject for journalists, scholars, and historians. Hardly a year passes when about a dozen of new titles are not added to the already bulging bibliography of the Kashmir dispute. It is, in fact, … Read entire article »
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Understanding the Kashmir Identity
Kashmir Identity, (a presentation made in 2002 at IMPA auditorium) Mr. Chairman, colleagues Good Morning I feel humbled in this gathering of scholars and researchers. Much before I start my talk, with all humility I would request you to bear with me for my shortcomings. At the same time, I would also request you to feel free to point out deficiencies and scantiness of my talk. I very firmly believe that a toddler like me has to learn … Read entire article »
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Asian Powers in Kashmir
Asian powers in Kashmir Z.G. MUHAMMAD | ARAB NEWS Some 18 years back British historian Alastair Lamb, in his second book “Birth of Tragedy” raised some important questions about the birth of the “Kashmir Dispute”. In the questions posed, he looked for the attributes for the cause and perpetuation of this dispute. One of the questions that he raised is about the geographical location of the state: “Had the State of Jammu and Kashmir been situated almost anywhere else in the Subcontinent and had it embraced a lesser area, India-Pakistan argument over its future might not have been conducted with particular intensity. The State, however, lay not only adjacent to both India and Pakistan but also on a key frontier region which gave access to Central Asia, a part of the world which … Read entire article »
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