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Hurriyat Conference’s Battle Within
It was a storm in teacup. That is how I looked at the ripples caused within a faction of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHCM) by the statement of its former Chairman Abdul Gani Bhat. He had stated that the United Nations resolutions on Kashmir ‘were not practically applicable in the present time’. He also asked the multi-party forum to join hands with the National Conference and the PDP and drafting a common minimum program … Read entire article »
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Untold Tales of Kashmir
It was time of change. As, I was leaving my mother’s lap, that warm hug, where evil could not harm me and learning to waddle with watangour- walker, toddling and stumbling at every step, lots of changes were taking place– changes that were bringing down the towers of Ilium, hubris and hegemony. It was a period of paradoxes and power. I do not know if these changes could be compared to the changes during the Victorian period for criss-crossing of ideologies, politics, duality and duplicity. It was a period of what social scientists would call as ‘paradigmatic change in the socio-economic structure.’ Panting for breaths the centuries old order and practices was dying – feudalism was dying, the brutal institution of moneylenders was gasping for breaths, and peasantry was discovering … Read entire article »
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Kashmir Muslim Society New Challanges
I want to have a frank talk with ‘the pulpit’. My belief is that I will not be committing any blasphemy in stating my mind to the preachers and sermonizers in my part of the world. Like overwhelming majority, I am born, and brought up in a Muslim family and have not received any formal education in Deen. I have not been a student of any seminary or theological school. Conscious of my limitations and … Read entire article »
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Who am I?
Talking Identity It set me thinking! In connection with the observance of the World Heritage Day, I received an invitation card from a government organization, the motto on top of the card read: `Preserve the Heritage – Preserve the identity.’ The motto by all stretch of imagination is innocuous but for me it subtly made a huge political statement and stirred many a question that called for answers. Who am I? Where are my roots? What is my identity? Do I have an identity of my own or I am just a part of the sub-continental identity? Does this identity provide basis to my grand narrative? How and why has my ‘identity’ become part of the “dominant discourse”? To tell me who I am, some years back a beeline of “scholars’, “researchers”, “think … Read entire article »
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Islam Inaugurated Intellectual liberity in Kashmir
Introduction Man is born poet. To express himself has been an innate and intrinsic urge with him. Initially he might have responded to the ‘sounds of natural forces; birds and animals; fear and joy through shrieks, cries and guffaws.’ The pitch and quality of these initial expressions might have ‘by degrees invented words and language.’ When did first word tumble in the world is a question that would continue to engage the attention of scientists in … Read entire article »
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Is Accepting Political Defeat A Way Out?
Gimmickry and diplomacy are not and cannot be synonymous. Past week Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari was in New Delhi. He had a luncheon meeting with Indian Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh. Ostensibly, it was a “private visit” but after Dr. Manmohan Singh invited him for a one to one meeting and sumptuous luncheon in Mogul, tradition it turned into what was described as an ‘accidental summit’. There was a lot of euphoria in a section … Read entire article »
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Jammu Since 1947 Abdul Majid Zargar tells the tale
The recent communal incidents in district Rajouri of Jammu province need to be viewed in the historical perspective. Primarily, because it is essential to lay the lessons of the past before the present & future for those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it . These events, were Ostensibly provoked by Parveen Togadia, international president of Vishwa Hindu Parishad, but in effect it is the continuation of the RSS agenda followed in Jammu since 1947 .In that year, Muslims of Jammu were systematically annihilated under a well thought out plan by RSS under Maharaja Hari Singh’s auspices. Their percentage in population was reduced from 61% to 38% thus changing the demographic character of the province. As Gandhi himself said on November 27, 1947, “This (genocide) has not been … Read entire article »
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