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Our Persian Heritage Needs To Be Translated
Z.G. Muhammad My Rambling Thoughts. I am amazed that translators receive less credit for their work than creative writers. However, had Arabs not institutionalised the translation of great works and philosophy between the eighth and tenth centuries, much of this literature might never have reached South Asian audiences. Looking at our heritage, we also have a strong translation tradition. The Sultans of Kashmir focused on translating Sanskrit literature into Persian and Persian literature into Sanskrit, creating a vast reservoir of literature that might otherwise have been lost. As late as the twentieth century, Maharaja Pratap Singh established a translation bureau under the aegis of the Jammu and Kashmir Libraries and Research Department. This bureau not only worked to preserve Sanskrit literature but also facilitated the translation of classic Sanskrit works produced in … Read entire article »
Filed under: Editor's Take, Featured, Memeiors, NostalgiaKashmir, PUNCH LINE, Z. G. Muhammad
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
An Offbeat Day With Writers (ZGM)
An Offbeat Day Z.G. Muhammad It was not mundane at all; there was not much excitement, but it was an offbeat day in as much as it was different from the past one thousand and odd days. Of course, sitting amongst a host of short story writers, most of them young, dreaming of making it to the list of Booker awardees Kiran Desai, Mohsin Hamid, Arundhati Roy and Geetanjali, it was a rendezvous with a utopian world. It was an engagement distant from the “new-norm world, ” in which many a friend and I have been living. In a small busy street connected to the Residency Road, filled with honks and horns, hawkers shout, vendors jeer, and teenyboppers giggle, there is a niche- as silent as cosy lovers’ corner in salubrious highlands. The … Read entire article »
Filed under: Kashmir-Talk
Of My Pandit Teacher and My Concern About Him
Z,G. Muhammad It was a few day back, I visited my favourite childhood haunt, Badamwari. After years– decades that I strolled in Bagh-e-Waris Khan- it has been done up nicely, but somehow I felt some artificiality in its new get-up. I don’t know why every new construction, including the beautiful chiselled limestone fountain, looked to me in a clash with its ambience. Everything looked alien to me. Perhaps the new construction living true to our … Read entire article »
Filed under: Kashmir-Talk, Memeiors, NostalgiaKashmir
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
My Memoir: My Father Part VI. Story of Two Alis- Ordinary Kashmiris
Part VI Part Six ‘The father did not join political discussions in the Radio Room with the news loving neighbours. Perhaps the reason was fear of snoopers and gumboots reporting it to those in the saddle and fear of earning their wrath.’ Nevertheless, when I wrote it at the start of this memoir, it was not suggested that he was snobbish, uninformed, or ill-informed about political happenings. Even if he may be detesting politics and the contemporary … Read entire article »
Filed under: Editor's Take, Kashmir-Talk, NostalgiaKashmir, Z. G. Muhammad
My Days in Bombay- Looking for spiritual solace in film nagari
Haji Malang My Days in Bombay – A spiritual Journey My Days in Bombay- Spiritual Journey of Downtown Boy Looking For Inner Solace in Film Nagari Off To Haji Malang ZGM Many spiritual experiences can’t be captured in words. Offering late-night prayers during sultry days on an islet with the soothing breeze blowing on all sides from the Arabian Sea had a unique spiritual elation. Perhaps, it was as good an experience as that of whirling … Read entire article »
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