A hard little pain had started in her heart and was traveling slowly up towards her throat where it would become a lump and the lump would soon become tears.
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Who fancied what a pretty sight?
Another beautiful poem by Wordsworth: Who fancied what a pretty sight This rock would be if edged around With living snow-drops? Circlet bright! How glorious to the orchard ground! Who loved the little Rock and set Upon its head this coronet? Was it the humour of a child? Or rather of some gentle maid, Whose…
Kashmir, 1990: Islamic Revolt or Kashmiri Nationalism
The central question we wish to address is whether the contemporary Kashmiri expression of independence in 1990 is part of a global Islamic pattern or yet another temporary reaction to some local provocation?2 If the former, is it linked to the uprisings in Israel and the Muslim Central Asian Republics of the USSR? We look for a link, not a direct political one but a conceptual one. What are the similarities, what identical patterns, what unifying principle may be identified, common to these movements? Numerous related questions arise. Is this a Kashmiri intifada? If the latter, what are the sources of disaffection, what are the objectives and what affect will they have—and arc having—on the fate of other Muslims in India? Also, how has the Kashmiri uprising fed communal feelings among the majority Hindus and thus reinforced parties like the BJP?
Lines written in early spring
[Wordsworth has been one of my favorite poets… Aren’t his words beautiful?] I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thought to the mind To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it…