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Abdullah family’s rise and fall
By Fahad Shah n the political arena of the Jammu and Kashmir, a little known family before 1930s which made it to the pages of history is the Abdullah’s of Kashmir. Starting from Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, who belonged to a shawl weaver family and became the Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, to the current [...]
Agha Shahid Ali \ Kashmir \ kashmiri poetry \ kashmiri poets \ The Country Without a Post Office
Agha Shahid Ali: Chronicler of pain
By Dr. Iffat Maqbool If There Is a Poet, It Is This, It Is This The passing away of Agha Shahid Ali in 2001 was a collective loss to Kashmir- the most eloquent Kashmiri-English poet, a writer of unmatched elegance and virtuosity, a chronicler of pain- his poetry is the very stuff of beauty, loss [...]
conflict literature \ India \ Kashmir \ Mirza Waheed \ The Colloborator \ The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial Studies
Silences and Shadows: Women in Mirza Waheed’s The Collaborator
By Ishrat Bashir We were the people who were not in the papers; We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. Margret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale Nationalisms ‘have typically sprung from masculinized memory, masculinized humiliation and masculinized hope’, remarks Cynthia Enloe in Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International [...]
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Economic growth of Jammu and Kashmir
By Showkat Anwar Bhat wave of optimism has swept across the economic development of our state. In the past thirty years, absolute poverty has descended substantially, almost entirely due to sustained growth. The decrease in poverty in India is likely to remain steady because India will continue to grow at a fast pace for another [...]
afghanistan \ ASEAN \ Beijing \ China \ India \ india foreign policy \ mayanmar \ USA
Values, Interests and India’s foreign policy
By C. Rohan The visit of the Prime Minister to Myanmar, the first after 25 years is marked a new chapter in India’s foreign policy. This visit is important primarily for three reasons. Firstly, India’s changing status as an emerging power and its increasing involvement in international politics; secondly, its global commitment to democracy promotion [...]
english \ Kashmir \ language \ literature
English Language: History and Pedagogy
By Saba Anjum Development of Language demarcates a vital evolutionary invention by mankind in the last few million years. It was an adaptation that helped our species to exchange information, make plans, express new ideas and totally change the appearance of the planet. In other sense, it helped us translate vision into thoughts and sounds. [...]
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Kashmir’s Unmarked Graves; UN Mediation
By Huma Sheikh In August 2011, the unmarked graves atrocity came to light in Kashmir after the Jammu & Kashmir Human Rights Commission confirmed that more than two thousand bodies were buried in those graves in several districts of the Valley. The commission said many of the dead were civilians who had disappeared over the [...]
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