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Education \ India \ indian politics \ uttar pradesh
Everything rotates around Education
Disorganized class is such a class of people whose standard of living, working style, socio-cultural values, economic status and level of thinking are different as compared to organized class. The classes of people who are coming under this purview are synonymously known as “Bahujan”. Bahujan is not confined to certain class of people. Just go [...]
Kashmir \ Maqbool Butt \ Tihar Jail
From Tihar Jail, New Delhi
Dated 7th August, 1981 To Mian Sarwar, a political activist in Srinagar Seeking help from God, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful. Dear Mian Ghulam Sarwar Sahib, Assalam-u-Alaikum I received your letter of 27th July a few days ago. Believe me, that epistle of love and the attached newspaper clippings have doubled the joy of [...]
freedom movement \ India \ jihad \ Kashmir \ Lahore \ Maqbool Butt \ Pakistan \ Tihar Jail
The Leader: Maqbool Butt
By Muhammad Faysal “Nations survive because of that (strong) spirit, that abiding passion for liberty, which according to our Holy Prophet (pbuh), “emboldens one to recite the Kalima-e-Tawheed (the call for truth) before a tyrant, and that too with the conviction that this is the greatest Jihad”. —Maqbool Butt Of all the heroes in Kashmir’s [...]
India \ Journalism \ Kashmir \ kashmiri journalists \ Media \ press
A Perspective On Journalism and Kashmir
One forms a perspective based on two things: what one gets to see, and one’s own sense of reasonability, sensibility and logic. Quite often, in the case of many, it is the lack of both. The ideas and opinions I hold of Kashmir today are based on what I have seen, mostly from afar, and [...]
hindus \ independence \ israel \ Kashmir \ palestine \ Russia \ ukraine
“Independent Kashmir must give something to Hindus”
In the wake of the Arab Spring, many have looked at the Middle East Region with amazement and genuine hope for a better future for the plagued Arabs. Giants such as Mubarak and Qadaffi have fallen, and as transition governments prepare for transition to democracy, the culprit lies in the detail. For the last hundred [...]
domestic violence \ hazratbal \ Kashmir \ kashmiri women \ kunanposhpora \ rape \ Torture
“Azaadi has to begin at our homes”
Kashmir’s women have been called the steel magnolias, the bravest in the world. Brave for having taken every suffering, endured pain and stood up in the height of odds. They have tolerated being widowed, left with no son, ravaged off their chastity and left alone in conditions, which are unbearable for others. But what have [...]
Agha Shahid Ali \ Kamila Shamsie \ Kashmir
Agha Shahid Ali, Teacher
By Kamila Shamsie This is a story that a friend of mine, like myself once a student of Agha Shahid Ali, told me about our former teacher some months after he had first been diagnosed with cancer: Shahid was riding the subway on his way to teach a class when he started to feel faint [...]
kashmir music artists \ Kashmiri music \ Radio Kashmir \ rehman rahi \ Sayyed Qaisar Qalandar
Early Days Of Radio Kashmir And Rise Of Female Singers
By Sayyed Qaisar Qalandar Before the advent of broadcasting service in Jammu and Kashmir in 1947, the print media was broadly confined to the coverage of current affairs and occasional literary and other social subjects. In fact, they were going through lean years due to various restrictions imposed on the freedom of expression by the [...]
Rahi Is A Poet Of Silence
To read the work of the Kashmiri poet, Rahman Rahi, is to return to the question of what is one’s own. To read Rahi is to begin understanding solitude. But not solitude as isolation, detachment or loneliness but solitude as an ancient virtue, as freedom. To read Rahi is also to read the Kashmiri self [...]
AFSPA \ congress \ India \ Kashmir \ public safety act
“Hope The Rulers Be A Bit Just”
Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell tonight before you agonize him in farewell tonight? I beg for haven: Prisons let open your gates- A refugee from Belief seeks a cell tonight. – Agha Shahid Ali Finally, the state Cabinet which met under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah agreed to [...]
Human Rights \ India \ international criminal court \ Kashmir \ truth and reconciliation commission
Camouflaging International Probe
By Dr. Sheikh Showkat Hussain The ones who have been consistently shielding and patronizing perpetrators of oppression in Kashmir are floating the ideas about establishment of Truth and Reconciliation Commission as if Kashmir has been in arena of civil war and warring communities need to be reconciled to the existence of rivals and motivated to [...]
India \ Kashmir \ kashmiri pandits
Of Plight, Rehabilitation And The Empire?
By Sanjay Tickoo The views expressed are authors own, it does not necessarily reflect The Kashmir Walla’s editorial policy. The plight of valley based Pandits Rehabilitation; political, economic & religious space in present scenario, has heightened. The State and the Centre Government’s ill intentions become clearer when the Prime Ministers package is not deemed to [...]
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