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 »