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2010 protests of kashmir \ India \ Kashmir \ kreeri \ protestors \ Torture
From home to grave
By Arif Shafiq Badoo The streets of Kreeri village smelled of spoiled blood, and silence filled the air with smoke. The Wednesday afternoon of July 2010 saw every house abandoned in this South-western village of Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir. Every ear was glued to the broken window edges and heard the marching raids. [...]
Delhi \ meena bazar \ old delhi \ record keeper \ shah music centre
The Melody Keeper
Shah Music Centre is a ten by ten feet shop in the core of Meena Bazar, Delhi. It is an eighty year old gramophone record shop which was started in the British India in 1930 by Syed Ahmed Shah, son of a Kashmiri born, British government servant, Syed Hassan Shah. The shop was first started [...]
gana hijacking \ Hashim Qureshi \ India \ JKLF \ jknlf \ Kashmir \ Lahore \ Maqbool Butt \ Pakistan
Who is Maqbool Butt?
Maqbool Butt said in a Special Court of Pakistan: “I have disliked self-praise but now when my role is being distorted, deliberately, I am forced to claim that at every stage of my life, I have not only supported the peoples struggle against exploitation and oppression but always actively participated in. I have consciously chosen [...]
India \ Kashmir \ kashmir armed movement \ Maqbool Butt \ Tihar Jail
The Meaning of Maqbool Butt
By P G Rasool Regarding the revolutionary struggle, Eqbal Ahmad writes in Confronting Empire, “A strategy of moral isolation assumes that the adversary has based its own legitimacy on moral grounds.” For Eqbal Ahmad the strategy of moral isolation of the adversary counts high. In retrospect we can analyse the life and sacrifice of Muhammad [...]
India \ Indian Soldiers \ Kashmir \ pampore
The Purple Of Za`faran— Gulzar
By Suhail Akram He had even engraved her name on his wrist. There was a gossip that he is mad about this tall girl from his neighbourhood, but no one thought that he would go to the extent of poisoning himself of some medical drug overdose. I had seen this girl hop around my Grandma’s [...]
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Zareef Ahmad Zareef | A Native Poet
By Saima Bhat Zareef Ahmad Zareef was born on April 17, 1943 in Aali Kadal, belongs to a middle class family in the Old city of Srinagar. He resides at Baadisha-i- Darwaza, near Makhdhoom Sahib Shrine. His father, Ghulam Mohi-ud-din Shah, owned an embroidery shop at Pathar Masjid and his mother, Mokhta Begum was [...]
82nd BIRTHDAY OF CHE GUEVARA
“Change is the only constant,” as said by the great thinker, Karl Marx, lets we all stand for a change in Kashmir. We are going through turmoil for past six decades and in war for past two decades. We have had dialogues and negotiations for many years involving many people. We struggled to live here [...]
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