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Days in Bombay. Khawaja Bazar in Bombay
. Nostalgia Khoja Bazar in Bombay By ZGM Truly, the metropolis, those days for all its shades and colors, was more entrancing than a rainbow. Then, the orange swallow-tailed flag had not taken over the landscape of the city that for more than a century had seen ‘professional promises’ of many enterprising young men like greatest South-Asian Muslim leader, M. A. Jinnah bloom to full. It had been a sanctuary that did not distinguish between colors and … Read entire article »
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Bombay Days 14. Spiritual Solace In Madding Crowds of Bombay
Nostalgia Spiritual Solace in Bombay ZGM Instantaneously, on my arrival, in February 1983, I had fallen in love in with metropolitan not only for its glamour and glitter, its pulsating evenings and safe nights but the honesty amidst the hullabaloo of crime and fraudulence. The cab drivers, mostly Muslims from Kutchi Memon community that had come from Gujarat to the metropolitan in the early nineteenth century had earned trust with the commuters for their scrupulousness and integrity. … Read entire article »
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Bombay Days 11 : Morarji Desai Taught Kashmir’s Top Man Punctuality
Nostalgia Morarji Desai and My HMT Watch ZGM Someone has said it, and said it beautifully ‘everybody owns a piece of Marine Drive’; it greets everyone with a smile, asks none; if he is a puritan or sinner, a maharaja or mendicant. Like millions of others, whose stories are preserved in its depth, I too have my share of stories about this great seashore, once known Kennedy sea face. In my childhood, much before having visited … Read entire article »
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António Guterres Wake UP – It can turn into a nuclear war
PUNCHLINE António Guterres Wake UP – It can turn into a nuclear war By Z.G. Muhammad Some days back, I found a passionately written petition in my mail box appealing for ending tension on the line vivisecting Jammu and Kashmir (LOC). The petition from a journalist friend from Jammu was addressed to Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan. The appeal on behalf of the citizen of Jammu and Kashmir rightly ‘apprehend that the growing tension will intensify … Read entire article »
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Kashmir Dispute and “Conspiracy Theory.”
PUNCHLINE Modi, Patel and Kashmir By Z. G. Muhammad To add scholarly flavor to their presentations some academics, love to use grand-sounding clichés. Of the many trite phrases used by them, ‘Conspiracy theory’ is a popular cliché with a particular brand of academics in our land. Once, they find points and arguments based on the historical realities or on the hard facts raised by a speaker or a question posed by a participant in a seminar … Read entire article »
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An Autobiographical Note- Tryst With Progressive Writers.
Nostalgia Tryst with Progressive Writers ZGM Our childhood, in many ways, was the antithesis of William Henry Davies famous poem ‘Leisure’ in which he laments; ‘What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare, We had a lot of time to stand and stare, and watch a thrush singing in the bush, look for cuckoo’s eggs in bulbuls’ nests in the ivies cloaking neighbor’s house and chase swallows flying on the deserted … Read entire article »
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Imperiled Kashmir Identity and Our Response
PUNCHLINE Imperiled Kashmir Identity By Z. G. Muhammad It is a historical truth. Arthur Brinckman was not wrong when in December 1867, in his introduction to his forty-page pamphlet titled, ‘The Wrongs of Cashmere’ he wrote ‘that since the bargain (Treaty of Amritsar”) was concluded in 1846 the poor Cashmerees have been shamefully oppressed by the rulers we put over them that this oppression is getting worse. And these unhappy people have been asking … Read entire article »
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