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Kashmiris Are A Brave Nation
I have come to believe as people we are naïve. Our earlier leadership was naïve. Our contemporary leadership is not a shade better than the old crop. Moreover naivety’ is our “tragic flaw.”It has been but for this ‘tragic flaw’ that despite offering heroic resistance against any kind of colonization – minds or territory, people have been landing in the troubled waters and the morasses of uncertainties. The story of Kashmir- your story and my story has been that of valor and courage. On all-important junctures of our history, we have risen in revolt against the desperadoes and fought battles against the usurpers. Historically, it would be unjust to believe that this nation has been accepting cruelty, intimidation and terror as its destiny. I see some ‘commentators’ singing in sync with … Read entire article »
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Kashmir Story –
It has been an enigmatic story that of birth with a bang and death with a whimper. In our state political organizations wither away much before they realize their political objectives but irrespective of their melting down political sentiments that these organizations articulate survives… The melting starts as and when the political organizations fail to synchronize their political stand with that of the popular political sentiment. My belief is grounded in the seventy-one year political history of the state. The cause for the phenomenon of wilting and dying of political organizations in the state engaging my attention has been recent political postures and statements by one of the premier political organization. For the past nineteen years, the organization has been on scene. Its history has not been different from other political … Read entire article »
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Dr. Iqbal: The Best Articulated Muslim Response
Iqbal continues be the protagonist- not in a work of fiction but in the complex contemporary South Asian story. He in fact through his thoughts and ideas rewrote the history and changed geography of the Sub-Continent. ‘Iqbal’, Dr. Muhammad Suhyel Umar in his preface to a compilation of papers by eminent international scholars titled “Muhammad Iqbal a Contemporary”, very aptly writes, “Iqbal is the best articulated Muslim response to totalizing claims of Modernity that the … Read entire article »
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Hijacking People’s Narrative
Kashmir University is not Harvard University. Moreover, the Department of Political Science of our University is no comparison to Kennedy School of Government of the Harvard University as far as academic freedom is concerned. For past many years, scholars at the CARR centre of the Kennedy School have been holding free and frank seminars and panel discussions on Kashmir dispute and hard topics relating it such as “World’s most militarized dispute”, ‘62 years of Unrest: … Read entire article »
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Rasul Saab Kashmir’s Own Sir Syed
It was the day. The day, I and my peers waited for months together. It was a loveable wait, as loveable as lover’s legendry longing for beloved in classical love stories. The wait for the day started, as I remember from the day the school opened after long winter vacations. I very vividly remember the preparation for the founder’s day —- the Rasul Sahib’s day as it was popularly known started immediately after the annual examinations would be finished. Those days’ annual examinations would be conducted in the month of March. The sword of examinations and tests did not hang on children’s head for the complete year- tests did not make children psychological wrecks, these were biannual affair “shashmahi” and “salana” examinations. The shashmahi examinations did not get on children’s nerves. … Read entire article »
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My Nile Tells Stories of Agony and Ecstasy
It was an odyssey- a grand odyssey: ‘sailing along the past’ with the great Sultans of Kashmir, sharing pinnacles of their glories, celebrating their victories and tasting their benevolences. Singing hymns in chorus with the great saints of the yore and living mystic experiences with the great mystics of the land. Suffering with the multitudes fleeced alive by the beastly rulers and then hanged from the cantilever bridges like sheep from hooks in a butcher’s … Read entire article »
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A tribute to the city through fond memories of its glorious past.
By Shujaat Bukhari Being the capital of the politically sensitive State of Jammu and Kashmir, Srinagar has always attracted the attention of writers and researchers, both Indian and foreign. Hundreds of books have been written on Kashmir, its politics, landscape and cultural and religious heritage. Srinagar, with its rich ethos and culture, has been in the centre of the multidimensional debates on the State. The glorious past of this ancient city, which was once known for its … Read entire article »
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