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Published at 27/07/2015 01:05:14   0 Comment(s)   Both parts of Kashmir should merge and have a common mechanism for everything from politics to economy Veteran journalist,  Kuldip Nayar,  is a witness to India’s 68 years of existence. He has seen every facet of India from times of Lord Mountbatten to Narendra Modi. Yet he considers himself a journalist by accident. On the sidelines of Srinagar Media Summit, he talks to  Rising Kashmir’s   Daanish Bin Nabi about India’s policy on Kashmir, the alliance between PDP-BJP, election rigging, and rise of Hindutva groups and their impact. ·           Had raiders not invaded Kashmir, it would have become part of Pakistan ·           It became difficult for Congress to do anything on Kashmir Question after rise of Jan Sangh ·           The only wrong about...

‘There can never be good memories of a war’ The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict, was India’s first televised war. Scores of television and print journalists covered the  ‘yuddh’  or  ‘jang’ . Foreign journalists from around the globe reached Kargil to cover various facets of the bloody conflict. For some scribes this event marked the beginning of their career in journalism. As the Kargil War completes 16 years,  Rising Kashmir’s   Daanish Bin Nabi  weaves an interesting narrative based on the recollections and stories of Kashmiri journalists who covered the blood-spattered mini-war way back in May-July 1999. Yusuf Jameel:  One of the Kashmir valley’s veteran journalists, Jameel presently reports for The Deccan Chronicle. “We were unsure whether we will be able to see the next morning or not. There was a barrage of fire coming from every side of the Kargil valley. And we did not know who was firing at what,” he says. About t...

Newsroom Trial You have to choose your method of struggle intelligently: Bose  Ayesha Jalal  and  Sugata Bose , two noted scholars and historians and renowned academics and authors from America visited ‘Rising Kashmir’ on June 21 to interact with members of the newspaper’s editorial staff and reporters. The duo delivered brief talks which focussed on the politics of identity, regional identity, the question of minorities, intellectual history of ideas in South Asia, the K-issue and the way forward,   ‘rise of religious majoritarianism in India’, and China’s economic expansion, etc .    The session was moderated by  Editor-in-Chief  Dr Shujaat Bukhari . Ayesha Jalal, a Pakistani-born American Professor and Director, Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies, Tufts University, said that Kashmir was not a question of religion for her. Jalal is grandniece of the renowned Urdu fiction writer Saadat Hasan Manto and a recipient of ‘...

Published at 01/06/2015 00:39:21     Dear Editor, The residents of Sopore from past many days are suffering from the breakdown of the communication system which has led to massive hit to the business establishment and students studying outside Kashmir. There is growing fear-psychosis in the town due to which resident’s even fear to come out of their homes. Although, there is calm in the town but the town has become a rumor mill with every sort of news coming from every corner of the town. The BSNL Exchange Office has stopped providing new SIM cards to already suffering customers and the higher authorities seem in no hurry to provide any relief to the customers. There are also rumors that there is curfew imposed by the Army in entire town after 9 pm, which has made it more difficult for the residents of the town to come out of their home late night. Situation is very grim with no hope in sight. There is total failure on part of government which is seen nowh...

Published at 31/05/2015 00:40:20   Book: Paradise on Fire Publisher: Millat Publication, 2015 Price: Rs 250 Daanish Bin Nabi Introduction The book Paradise on Fire is one among the books on Kashmir that present splendidly its past as well as present. For the first time any author has chronicled activities, actions, responses and counter arguments to Syed Ali Geelani’s political legacy, written in English. The book also acts as a source, perhaps for the first time in Kashmir, in providing empirical data, details on political conflict that are presented in a lucid manner. The book offers a perspective of major world events at large and of Kashmir in particular. The author, Abdul Hakeem, has quoted ample examples and a thorough research is put to the use of the reader about Syed Ali Geelani and Kashmir movement in the light of Islam. Overview of the book The role of Geelani and important events from 1947 to the inception of militancy in late 1980s has ...