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Nehru-Communist Dubious Role In Kashmir- Response to Andrew Whitehead
Punchline Beyond the “Cut and Paste” Story Z.G. Muhammad Everybody has a right to his ideas. Nonetheless, as Nietzsche says, “We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.” A few day back, Andrew Whitehead, a former BBC journalist who reported from Srinagar in the nineties now turned historian had been invited to deliver a talk, Kashmir 1947-1953 by Kashmir University. He … Read entire article »
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14 July ‘International “Dead Eyes Day”- A Call To UN
Punchline ‘International “Dead Eyes” Day’ Z.G. Muhammad Sitting on my desk on Saturday to write my weekly column, instantly I remembered it was 25 March. From 2008 the day is observed as the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. A memorial named as the Ark of Return has been erected at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to honor the victims of slavery permanently. Such memorials, perpetuating … Read entire article »
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Was USA Really Interested in Independent Kashmir Or Communist Propaganda
Punchline Red Herring and Truth By Z. G. Muhammad Like Banquo’s ghost in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, Adlai Stevenson revisits Kashmir’s political narrative at regular intervals. For more than eleven years his ghost persistently hovered over the political horizons of Srinagar, Jammu, and Delhi- inside the court rooms, in the Parliament and public places. It has once again reappeared after a report prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) years ago has been declassified and published in a section … Read entire article »
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Changing Demography of Jammu and Kashmir?
Punchline Target: Demography Z. G. Mohammad It was not something that happened for the first time during the 2016-Intifada. It is an old story, whenever there is an upswing in the movement in the State for the cherished right, integral to basic human Rights, the groups of “troubleshooters” from New Delhi start air dashing to the summer capital. Some call themselves as faith healers; some designate themselves as well wishers of Kashmir and some love … Read entire article »
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When Political Collaborators Met Their Nemesis
And Thugs Met Nemesis ZGM In our childhood there were lots of political thugs in the city- perhaps villages also had their bit. For enjoying the patronage of a Caesar of hubris in power this lawless band of political hoodlums could be compared to the black hand of early twentieth century America, except they did not operate in secret but with the full knowledge of cops- including the super cop. This criminal syndicate indulging in cheating, extortion … Read entire article »
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2016 Kashmir Intifida- Case For UN
Where We Erred Z. G. Muhammad “Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” For past sixty-seven years, this is exactly, what we the people of Jammu and Kashmir have been doing. Time and again we have not allowed them to ‘write us down in history with their bitter and twisted lies’ but to use a poet’s words every time like a ‘black ocean, … Read entire article »
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Hollywood Film “Lost Command” And Kashmir
PUNCHLINE “Lost Command” Lessons From Hollywood Movie Z. G. Muhammad ‘The Colonisers or the Occupiers how so big military powers they may be cannot stand before the people’s might. They are bound to meet their Waterloo.’ That was the first lesson; I learnt as a teenager, not from the books on history but a Hollywood film. I was a film buff. In the mid-sixties and seventies, there was a hardly a Hollywood film on the Second World War, Vietnam War and about struggling Africans that I might not have watched in cinemas and learnt a lesson that no tutor or leader was able to teach me. Some of the films on the Vietnam War in the seventies like ‘Coming Home’ and ‘The Dear Hunter’ that broadly said that United States involvement in the Vietnam was … Read entire article »
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