Tag: Kashmir
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Tonight, let me write!
Tonight, let me write!Let me write With the burning flames Of youthful passionUnder the silver balm Of the crescent moonAmidst the soothing fragrance Of the spring air — Tonight, let me write!Let me write Of the dark Dreadful sleepless nights,Of the days bygone And the paths forsaken,Of the one-way journeys To strange lands — Tonight, let me write!Let me writeOf the hopeful eyesAnd the […]
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Let Me Be Clear
Insanity is trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. […]
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Where Did We Fail?
This article was inspired by a number of letters which have recently appeared in several Kashmir-based dailies in response to some totally bizarre statements made by Syed Ali Shah Geelani in an interview published in the daily Rising Kashmir in which he blames the people of Kashmir for the failure of the separatist movement while […]
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Perils of Destructive Politics
By: Dr. Sadaf Munshi “Kashmiri people follow Geelani, believe in JKLF ideology and pin hopes on Mirwaiz” The statement quoted above was an observation made by a scholar from the United Kingdom during a Kashmir visit in 2010 when over 116 young lives were lost for nothing. In the past few days, the situation in […]
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The Return of the Kashmiri Pandit
By: Dr. Sadaf Munshi “The Return of the Kashmiri Pandit” – this phrase has come to sound like that famous 1985 horror movie-cum-black comedy The Return of the Living Dead. Given that we Kashmiris are so hypersensitive that a slight tinge of satire may stoke unwanted emotions, I hope being candid does not lead to […]
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Revisiting the Question of the Kashmiri Pandits: The Battle of the Narratives
By: Dr. Sadaf Munshi Every year the people of the Kashmiri Pandit (KP) and Kashmiri Muslim (KM) communities commemorate the month of January 1990 for the beginning of an era of two structurally different but extremely bitter and painful experiences: the “exodus” of the former facilitated by an atmosphere of immense fear and terror and […]
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To our leaders and politicians: a lesson to learn
As an academician and a mother of a four-year old, I discovered that children learn things better if you provide them with illustrations. The same principle applies to adults as well. But in being able to learn things, adults have an advantage, and that is their experience. However, there are some “adults” who simply refuse […]
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The APHC Nautanki
While going through the contents of Kashmir Observer some time ago my eye was caught by the following quote which made me chuckle: Quote of the day “It (split) has maliciously harmed the unity the people of Kashmir have achieved in the form of APHC.” […]
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Swim Along the Stream
“History has seen such times when the crime was committed by a moment, but the punishment was suffered by centuries”. (Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah) In retrospect, for more than half a century now India and Pakistan have been engaged in attempts to resolving the question as to whether the accession of the State of Jammu and […]
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