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The Rebel Poet of JNU
By Fahad Shah Extolling brave warriors by singing a Veergathain Awadhi language, he is a fifty-four year old man with pepper-salt hair, sitting on a red-stone bench at the famous hangout, Ganga Dhaba in Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University. Rama Shankar Yadav, from Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh, is a small man. Wearing light-brown woollen coat and black [...]
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Protest in Delhi against the attack on Geelani
By Fahad Shah “We want freedom“- the slogan, a demand of the people of Indian-held-Kashmir reverberated today in the centre of India’s capital Delhi, at Jantar Mantar, just walking distance away from the parliament of this country. Early in the evening, assembling in a large tent, erected on one side of the road, hundreds of [...]
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The arrest of Kashmiris: Police, family, evidence?
By Fahad Shah The arrest of two Kashmiri youth from Delhi and Jharkhand by the special cell of Delhi Police is yet to be investigated thoroughly but the police, a few hours after the arrest, said they recovered some “incriminating documents and material” from the two men. There are many versions in the story. Family [...]
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“Can I check your passport?”
It was a last stark reminder of the fact that in India wherever a Kashmiri is he is a ‘suspicious’ person. It shows that we will be discriminated and targeted till the day the Indians (troops) are on our soil or we are on theirs. You know at every step in Kashmir we are beleaguered, [...]
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“I am not Indian; I am Kashmiri”
In the summer of 2008, I got a phone call from my cousin who lives in Delhi. He told me about my selection in Jawaharlal Nehru University. After two weeks of dilemma, I finally decided to join the university in a language course. It took me a while to come to terms with my decision [...]
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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 [...]
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“Have you ever met a terrorist?”
The story of Kashmir is a story of a Paradise. Almost everyone knows about, and has an opinion on the Kashmir and its conflict. Kashmir is a flower on the geography book and a blot on the history book. The general notion about the youth of Kashmir is that they are repressed, suppressed and depressed. [...]
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“You all Kashmiris have terrorist mind set”
The avenues of education in Kashmir have always been limited but aspirants many. Prior to the conflict in Kashmir, very small number of students would venture out for higher education owing to lack of exposure about such opportunities or financial constraints. The world beyond the Banihal tunnel had not opened up for many Kashmiri’s yet. [...]
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I am writing my biography: Yasin Malik
Eleventh February is remembered as Maqbool Butt’s death anniversary. Every year demonstrations are held in many parts of world. His followers and the people of Kashmir demand the return of his remains from Tihar Jail, where he is buried, to Kashmir. Kashmiri groups, on both sides of the dreaded line of control and all over [...]
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Old Delhi and Its Inhabitants
Slaughter- houses, orange jalebis frying in hot, burning oil; shiny, colourful bangles hanging from stalls, vendors naming prices, burqa-clad women bargaining with them, the crowded lane of Kareem’s restaurant, men chewing and spitting pan, narrow lanes lit up with small twinkly lights, Abhishek Bachan in Delhi-6, Chandni Chowk, Paranthe wali Gali and the thronging, bustling [...]
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Everything I Cannot Tell You About The Women Of Kashmir
By Nitasha Kaul What can I tell you about the women of Kashmir? You, who read this, will already have a procession of images in your head. Maybe you will think of the famous women poets, sages and mystics of Kashmir: of Lal Ded and Habba Khatoon, of Arnimal, of Rupa Bhawani. Their memory lives [...]
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Working In Delhi Lands Kashmiris In Trouble
By Sumegha Gulati New Delhi: A year after the anti-touting legislation came into existence, fourteen people out of whom six are kashmiris, have been booked under the law since January this year in New Delhi’s tourist hub Connaught Place. The accused however claimed that they were “merely guiding” tourists towards their travel agency offices which [...]
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