I See Kashmir from New Delhi at Midnight, by Agha Shahid Ali

I am not a great fan of poetry, but this one is a must read "Don't tell my father I have died," he says,   and I follow him th...

Kashmir Bleeds

I managed to reach the hospital to enquire about the well being of a friend who had been hospitalised for some abdominal problem. This was i...

Come, O Gardener

Come, O Gardener! Come to create the glory of a new spring. A spring in which the   gul   will bloom, the bulbul will sing. The garden is de...

Why I don’t feel like an Indian

I belong to the 90’s generation, a time when struggle for independence of Kashmir was passing through its bloodiest phase. A few months befo...

We, the Kashmiri people

 Samar Halarnkar, Hindustan Times Everyone I meet in Srinagar — doctor, student, taxi driver or separatist — has at some point been pushed a...

A DAY OF MAYHEM

14 KILLED 90 INJURED.Its a sad day, A day of bloodshed. Its so unfortunate that while the whole world condemns the brutality and killings in...

69 deaths and counting.

Writing such sordid stories always pains me. In this contemporary world it troubles me that innocents are getting killed and people who are ...

Kokar Tchuer

From the Translators Desk: Kokar Tschuer: Chicken Thief But what is new in this, Kashmiri’s are used to such things. In a recent Greater Kas...

And thus spake Farooq

Published in Daily Rising Kashmir http://www.risingkashmir.com/news/and-thus-spake-farooq-931.aspx Whatever National Conference President ...