Why are we blindly welcoming the arrival of new year, Weren’t last few years our pained existence? Does man have wisdom, Or is he a natural phenomenon unguidable? …
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My six-week trip to India was a boutique of reciprocated sentiments for my motherland, especially the part spent in Kashmir. As the nature of human life is, it was not…
It seems some things in life are destined to fail, especially among those that you cherish the most. When I was a boy, I used to think…
koī ye kah de gulshan gulshan laakh balā.eñ ek nasheman let someone proclaim from garden to garden there are innumerable calamities but only one nest qātil rahbar qātil…
When I was born, English was not my first language, Kashmiri was. English was the language of my motherland India’s occupiers, the British, who ruled India for 200 years; so,…
I am said to have been born around five in the morning (not a convenient time for deliveries even in modern times) in a hospital, from where my mother…
Raj Begum in 2011 (at 84) Raj Begum continues to have a special aura among the singers of Kashmir. It is because she had a high-pitch, deep-drilling,…
Even as Covid -19 has squelched humanity’s pride in itself to almost naught, but it has not numbed the titanic strength of its questioning mind. In the human evolution…
Her word was soft, Her footsteps were softer, Yet her presence was louder than others. Today we grieve the friend we lost, The light that was shut off, The…
Dear KOA Biradari, In 1977 I attended, what is considered now the first meeting of an organization that later was called Kashmir Overseas Association, at Surinder and Mohini Nath’s…