Kashmir Halcyon:

International Youth Day Daanish Bin Nabi On 12 August, the Internati onal Youth Day is celebrated all across the globe to discuss issues of the youth. Unfortunately, on this important day the Kashmiri youth seems to have been completely forgotten. World Youth Day has a different connotation for Kashmir for various reasons.  Around the world, the youth are sharing and discussing new ideas. They are talking about new concepts, innovations, development and progress. In Kashmir, the youth is struggling to find a space even for a free exchange of ideas. The space for a youth stands choked and there is such a controlled environment that a Kashmiri youth is not in a position to think of development and socio-economic progress. The Kashmir conflict has claimed thousands of lives and coerced youth in activities which can’t be termed as constructive by any standard. This phenomenon often leads to disastrous results. There is a negative impact of conflict on the youth of...

Kashmiris have always been ready for a result-oriented dialogue with India, but this should come with dignity Daanish Bin Nabi  Dialogue, no doubt, is a part of a freedom struggle. Many conflicts in the world were known to have been resolved only through dialogue, after sustained violent clashes between various groups. The conflict in Northern Ireland was resolved through a proper and sustained conflict resolution process (read dialogue). The Kashmir conflict is no different from any other, and this "dispute" has to be resolved through a process of conflict resolution.  The chairman of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, said in an interview that dialogue was the only way forward - a theory with which many of his close aides and associates also agree. On the opposite end of this divide is the lone but upbeat old stalwart of the Tehreek-e-Hurriyat, Syed Ali Shah Geelani. He also says that he is ready for a dialogue with New Delh...

The 23rd March 1987, the day that changed Kashmir as never before Published at 06/08/2015 03:33:50  0 Comment(s) Daanish Bin Nabi Many formidable Indian politicians have said on record that elections for Jammu and Kashmir’s legislative assembly have seldom been free and fair. The alleged widespread rigging in the 1987 elections could well be described as a watershed moment in the Himalayan region’s tumultuous political history, as the then newly formed political alliance of like-minded parties, Muslim United Front (MUF), felt disgruntled after most of its candidates were declared unsuccessful. Did the 1987 elections compel Kashmiris to question a political process controlled and managed by New Delhi and did the ‘rigging’ fuel popular anti-India armed uprising of 1989, Daanish Bin Nabi  tries to ferret out.  In words of Prem Shankar Jha, one of India’s leading journalists and columnists, it was New Delhi which put a question mark on the electoral process...

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 ‘...