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Kashmir Kaleidoscope: Stranger to My Home and History - by Raju Moza
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A kaleidoscopic view of Kashmiri history through art, poetry, fiction, personal narratives, and cultural criticism. Wednesday, 17 October 2012. Stranger to My Home and History - by Raju Moza. My emotional response to the distortion of the facts before the onset of Insurgency in Kashmir, and how I feel when someone extends the ‘invitation’ to visit Kashmir. Every time someone ‘invites’ me to Kashmir, an excruciating feeling emanates within me. Invite from ‘home’? One born later cannot today imagine what K...
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Kashmir Kaleidoscope: Two Kashmiri Poems: History from the perspective of a people's poet
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A kaleidoscopic view of Kashmiri history through art, poetry, fiction, personal narratives, and cultural criticism. Monday, 12 November 2012. Two Kashmiri Poems: History from the perspective of a people's poet. But within a few years he got disillusioned. Being a 'patwari' (a land steward), he was in close contact with the 'aam aadmi' living in the backwaters of the valley. He was unhappy the fruits of freedom and progress had gone to the chosen few and not percolated to the grassroots. The s...Chaman va...
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Kashmir Kaleidoscope: November 2012
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A kaleidoscopic view of Kashmiri history through art, poetry, fiction, personal narratives, and cultural criticism. Sunday, 18 November 2012. Akanandun" - A short-story by M. K. Santoshi. English translation by SUALEH KEEN of the Hindi short-story “ Akanandun”. Written by MAHARAJ KRISHAN SANTOSHI, which featured in his short-story collection Hamare Ishwar Ko Tairna Nahin Aata. In Kashmir there will be no mother who hasn’t shed tears after listening to the folktale Akanandun. 8221; mother had asked. 8220;...
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Kashmir Oral History project - KashmirConnected
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Articles + Reports. A Few Days in the Lolab Valley. Saints, shrines and divines. A Few Good Women. Traumatic Pasts in Kashmiri Fiction. The Majesty of Kashmiri Shawls. Multiple Meanings of Aazadi. Kashmiri and the Languages of Kashmir. Kashmir Oral History project. The Kashmir Oral History project. Is an important new initiative to record the testimonies of Kashmiris about their past. Here's an account of the project and its goals from those who have established it - please give it your support:.
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Kashmir Kaleidoscope: The Map, and the Territory! - by Shantiveer Kaul
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A kaleidoscopic view of Kashmiri history through art, poetry, fiction, personal narratives, and cultural criticism. Monday, 5 November 2012. The Map, and the Territory! Alfred Korzybski, the Polish-American philosopher once famously said: ‘If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone! This appeared earlier as an article in The Kashmir Monitor). 8220;Wom...
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Kashmir Kaleidoscope: An Account of Ta'ey (Ta'ey Naama) - by Amin Kamil
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A kaleidoscopic view of Kashmiri history through art, poetry, fiction, personal narratives, and cultural criticism. Thursday, 30 October 2014. An Account of Ta'ey (Ta'ey Naama) - by Amin Kamil. Is one of the finest satires by celebrated Kashmiri poet Amin Kamil. It appeared first in the magazine VAAD. During the early 1980’s. He included this poem in the 1995 edition of the Kashmiri humour anthology KOSHURAH ASAN TRAAYI. However, I have translated the later versions of select verses. پیوٚو ہُ...کھوٚ...
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Kashmir Kaleidoscope: “Womb” – A short-story by M. K. Santoshi
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A kaleidoscopic view of Kashmiri history through art, poetry, fiction, personal narratives, and cultural criticism. Thursday, 8 November 2012. 8220;Womb” – A short-story by M. K. Santoshi. English translation by SUALEH KEEN of the Hindi short-story “ Kokh”. Written by MAHARAJ KRISHAN SANTOSHI, which featured in his Hindi short-story collection Hamare Ishwar Ko Tairna Nahin Aata. For the sake of saying, these three were quite different women, but the pain of their womb was one.". 2] and a kasaaba. The two...
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Kashmir Kaleidoscope: May 2013
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A kaleidoscopic view of Kashmiri history through art, poetry, fiction, personal narratives, and cultural criticism. Monday, 6 May 2013. 8220;The Fight” – A short-story by M. K. Santoshi. English translation by SUALEH KEEN of the Hindi short-story “ Laddaee”. Written by MAHARAJ KRISHAN SANTOSHI, which featured in his short-story collection Hamare Ishwar Ko Tairna Nahin Aata. Or laziness then; or else aversion. In Kashmiri, ‘desire’ is called tamaah. And they gave up tamokh. 8220;What is all this? We had r...
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Kashmir Kaleidoscope: August 2013
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A kaleidoscopic view of Kashmiri history through art, poetry, fiction, personal narratives, and cultural criticism. Saturday, 31 August 2013. The ruse that wasn't - by Shakir Mir. I am in a gutter engulfed in darkness and stench and they don't even want me to see the sunshine on the street.". The idea to organize the concert in Kashmir arose out of Mehta’s impending desire to perform in the Valley, significantly distant from an “orchestrated plan” to portray the state as normal. 8220;What a shame that I ...
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Kashmir Kaleidoscope: October 2014
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A kaleidoscopic view of Kashmiri history through art, poetry, fiction, personal narratives, and cultural criticism. Thursday, 30 October 2014. An Account of Ta'ey (Ta'ey Naama) - by Amin Kamil. Is one of the finest satires by celebrated Kashmiri poet Amin Kamil. It appeared first in the magazine VAAD. During the early 1980’s. He included this poem in the 1995 edition of the Kashmiri humour anthology KOSHURAH ASAN TRAAYI. However, I have translated the later versions of select verses. پیوٚو ہُ...کھوٚ...