Its been a long time since I posted … Been busy with things.. and more importantly thinking and rethinking things.. 🙂 Its Ramadan and I havent wished my readers Ramadan Mubarak, so here I am RAMADAN KAREEM. Hope you all are blessed this Ramadan. InshaAllah I will write again… soon.. inshaAllah. The blogger of this…
Baap ki sadak hay… (the road belongs to their father…)
Or that is what they think! With an intense hatred I stare at the convoys, the army vehicles, the armed men who think they own the roads and shove us about and around as per thier wishes. A shrill whistle a uniformed man standing on top of the army truck and waving his hand… (implying…
Amazing Dal!
Dal Lake is at the heart of Srinagar city. Imagine the lulaby of the oars as they play at the cool Dal waters. The pictures say it all. Beautiful indeed. SubhanAllah! (all pics (c) 2007 Asma Yasrib )
Rapes by “Security Forces”
Ghulam Nabi Azad made a statement a few days back justifying the number of rapes committed by “security forces” in Kashmir. I was too angry to write. I read something from GK today that somehow vents out some of that anger that I feel.. so I quote it for you to read and think: Rapes:…
1st August 2007
1st August — and we have a count down starting for the independence day celebrations. A mushroom growth of military on all roads. Frisking and checking at every other nook and corner starts. The military has maintained its ugly presence in Kashmir for all these 19 years, and we are so used to it that…
Think different!
Its been a long time since I last posted. One of those pauses in writing that come and take quite some time to get rid off.. and I finally shook it off. A few days back I found a book at home, “Ideas that moved the world.” compiled by Horace Shipp (if i remember correctly)….
A young lad starts his own newspaper.
After being disgusted by the kind of “news” that is displayed in the local newspapers a young lad started his own online newspaper. Leave all other things aside. I am simply impressed by the idea and the effort. For Kashmiris living in KAshmir, we could add our little bit of news to The Times of…