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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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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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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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Summing up SRINAGAR (Book Review)
ZGM’s Nostalgia shapes into a book bringing alive the stories from the city that once was Kashmir in recent years has witnessed a surge of books. Most of the books tell us the grim stories of the two decades. Most of these books have a single theme this one, but this book – Srinagar My City My Dreamland – is a compendium of articles written in Nostalgia column of Greater Kashmir over last few years, touching … 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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