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Shrines and Religious Places Bill
What is special to Kashmir and what is unique to the temples there that the poets sing about, the mystics mull over, and lay people like me long for?
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Sacred Space
How can someone else bear the name that sends my heart aflutter, the name that can belong only to her?
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Pebble Beach Rocks
The rocks sit there since aeons Stroked fondly by unseen hands That paint with unique pastels
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The Final Frontier
This is an anthology of one hundred and seven poems penned down in free verse while I was caring for my mother during her last four years of life
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Trail by the sea
The Pacific is peaceful, And true to its name, As the waves draw closer
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The Seventeen Mile Drive
But how can anything die here, In this chosen slice of earth, That breathes immortality?
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Striking Up A Friendship
How do we make friends here? How do we forge an acquaintance? Do I knock on someone's door,
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The Social Activist
You see, sir, being a social activist, I have been able to command some respect in the refugee settlement.
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Why don't you convert?
Why do I need to convert? My conversion doesn’t make Islam any better. Besides, I have no problem with being what I am.
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Price of a Lamb
How can you take this lamb, madam? Do you Battas have a heart? Do you possess any knowledge about rearing cattle? It is still a baby sucking at its mother's teats; I can not let it die under your care.
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A forgotten Vow
Suddenly, he heard that mocking laughter from his cousin and his friends. Suddenly, he saw that teasing and arrogant look on the face of his cousin?s friend.
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An Indian Connection
We want Dash to have Hindu rites. We arranged for his cremation the same day he was crushed to death. It was such a sad spectacle. We did not let our children see his dead body. But we wrapped him in a saffron cloth and placed him in a tray for the cremation and asked the kids to lay floral wreaths on him.
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Lalla - the Yogini
A study from the perspective of Kashmir Shaivism- Lalla ? the Yogini is essentially a compilation of seven essays that have already appeared serially in Kashmir Sentinel. To see the whole corpus of the work in the form of a book is refreshing and inviting. It makes them quite readable.
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The Poplar of Discord
We never saw Girdhari Lal again. No one knows when he returned to Bombay. Was it sometime in the afternoon or during the dead of the night? Nor did Pran Nath Dhar ever discuss the shocking episode with any one. He was too proud and too shy, too private and too reticent to share his anguish or seek counsel.
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The Guru's Last wish
From Faith and Frenzy - short stories from Kashmir
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Faith and Frenzy
Shyam Lal fell headlong into the shallow river. However, this final assault saved his life instead of drowning him. The cold water numbed his pain and stopped the hemorrhaging from the cuts and slashes.
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Accession Day (Velay Divas)
Accession Day has also been conveniently forgotten by the country, because we have made of mess of what was a position of advantage, turning an opportunity into an adversity thorough a series of tactical, strategic and political blunders that continue to exact a heavy price from the nation.
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Faith & Frenzy
Short Stories from Kashmir-K L Chowdhury has converted real experiences into the literary genre called the short story. He has succeeded to a large extent in utilizing all the artistic paraphernalia to make each story grip the reader's attention.
Author : Prof. R N Kaul More
Tha Anna Effect
Where did Anna get the energy to hold on? Did he really draw energy from the crowds, as he claimed? I recall the face of Mahatma Gandhi during some of his long fasts - how wan, withered and weak it looked even after a fast of lesser duration. Not so Anna.
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Homeland after Eighteen Years
Through the medium of his four anthologies, published during the last decade, Dr. Chowdhury has, in his inimitable style, taken poetry out of the realm of elitism and brought it to the common man, to our bedrooms and drawing rooms.
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Homeland after Eighteen Years
Dr. Chowdhury's poems originate from his sad home coming, and observed the outpourings of his spontaneous reactions have a deep seated internal symphony, the "Still sad music" of humanity.
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Lighting Candles, Remembering Martyrs
Even more painful than the gruesome killings have been the intimidation and the innuendoes, the vitriol, the barbs and the sarcasm, and the humiliation and the insults poured on us at every possible juncture during our everyday life in Kashmir.
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The Deluge and After
We walked through the smell and stench that has enveloped the locality. The whole place was rife with mosquitoes, flies and other vermin.
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Cricket
Another poem on Cricket: That day, the hate-filled crowds wrote the epitaph for the game of cricket for the young boys fancied the Kalashnikov over the famously indigenous willow.
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Cricket
Whenever there is a cricket match, India playing another country, I wake up with great anticipation
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I am my own company
I am my own company, my own friend and confidante. Who has the time to sit by my side and share a thought or two with me? With my hearing handicap who would like to shout into my ear, a blessing or a blasphemy?
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Vivekananda Medal awarded to Prof. Brij Nath Kaul
The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture presented the “Vivekananda Medal 2009” to Prof. Brij Nath Kaul of Srinagar, Kashmir, in recognition and appreciation of his valuable contribution and utmost dedication to the uplift of the common people of Srinagar, Kashmir..
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Return alternatives- Undoing the Exodus
We have to ask ourselves that big question which seems to evade us while we are busy striking deeper roots in exile, content with the deprivation, the alienation, the violation of our political, economic and territorial rights.
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Changing a Name
They drove me out of my home and made a refugee of me. They took my house and property and rendered me a homeless pauper.
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A place to die
Cancer is a horrific disease; terminal cancer is death waiting in the shadows. Waiting, yet in no hurry to pounce on its victim and gobble it up. It goes about its work leisurely and kills at its own pleasure.
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Return of the Natives
Response from the author to questions based on this article; carried earlier in the May 2009 issue
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You Announce Your Arrival
When I recalled your promise from the memory of earlier lives to be born as my offspring again and again, I wondered how long I would have to wait.....
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Return of the Natives
In search for a roof over his head he used many stopovers over several years, till he finally landed in Purkhoo “Migrant’ Camp and earned his claim to a one-room ‘quarter’ in Purkhoo Phase III, constructed for Kashmiri ‘migrants’. He was allotted Room 555 where he has been living for nearly a decade.
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New Paradigm of Life
Let us blend genes with genes - those magic skeins, the encrypted secrets of life - and pass our lineage on
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A New Star in the Firmament
We lay prostrate in obeisance in the benevolent Lord’s presence; we bathed him in the milk of our love, and offered flowers and incense;
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Virtual Reality
No sooner I opened the front door in my impatience to saunter out for my first morning stroll than the deafening burglar alarm, like thunder in a cloudless sky, tore the morning peace apart, catching the household unawares.
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Time Encapsulated
Was Time ever made captive as when I conceived you my little angel, and made use of every infinitesimal second in shaping you, my darling,
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Sighting You the First Time
You were only a vision, a desire to grasp and see, a beautiful thought, a symphony, a fragrance out of the ordinary, a touch of eternity.
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Choice
Often of a beautiful morning after having returned from a walk I find my grandchildren in a stretch of confusion wondering what to have for breakfast and what not.
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Jammu Uprising
Now, for the first time in 20 years since the rise of terrorism, Jammu people have risen in protest against this grave insult to their religious sensitivities. Pandits have lent their wholehearted support and, except for a few well-known compulsive leaders with a penchant to steal the limelight and see themselves in the press at every possible opportunity, they have remained discreet and allowed the Sangharsh Samiti to lead from the front, which is as it should be in our own interest.
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Then there was no Shame
You knew my nakedness ever since I took birth, but I knew yours even before I was born. Time has taken a full circle, dear mother,
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Faith versus Frenzy
One of them flicked open his knife and slashed him savagely, inflicting deep cuts in his limbs and his torso. He bled profusely and went into a swoon and lay in a pool of blood. They took him for dead and walked away.
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THE SHIVRATRI SPIRIT
A lot of ritual goes into the festival. A symbolic marriage is observed between Shiva and Parvati, in every house - pitchers, pots and pans symbolizing the lord, the goddess, and the marriage party, are arranged and decorated at a vantage place in the house.
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So Many Frozen Shoulders
I see them in my consulting chamber, so many frozen shoulders - their wearers with arm tucked close to their side to avoid movements that make them suffer and squeal.
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The Invisible Walls
Sitting here I can relate with them, and see beyond those walls and move across those fences to discover a flower smiling at me,
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Stones I worship
I like them - these stones - not just because there is so much there, both the microcosm and the macrocosm, in these unpretentious stones; that they bear the footprints of time;
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Amarnath Yatra - another unfolding tragedy in Kashmir
The wild protests in the valley, alike from different political parties, mainstream organizations, and separatists of all hues, to the temporary lease of forest land to Shri Amar Nath Shrine Board (SASB) makes a sad and painful portrayal of the exclusivist, and illogical mindset that rules the roost in Kashmir. It is clear evidence that, cutting across political ideologies
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My Seraphic Willows
This book represents the memories both pleasant and depraved of author before saying goodbye to Kashmir Read more
Patriach of the Kaul Family
A rare combination of administrative prowess and academic brilliance with a godly spiritual bent. Read more
A Tail of The Bulbul
The parent Bulbuls were nowhere to be seen. We both felt something missing Read more
Kashmiri Recipe Roganjosh
Roganjosh is a main dish on any occasion from informal invitation to formal occasions like weddings. Read more
Video Protest Rally against Jihadi Terrorist
Republic TV coverage of the rally Read more
Jews with Hindus against Jihadi Terrorists
Jewish friends show solidarity with Hindus in fight against Jihadi terrorists in Kashmir Read more
The Beauty of Glacier National Park
Northwest of Montana encompasses more than one million acres of terrain. Glacial-carved mountain peaks and valleys, cascading waterfalls and the iconic Road Read more
Art in Kashmir
Mohan Raina The Creative Genius Read more
Neel Gatha
The poems give the historical background of the events that happened before, during, and after the exodus. Read more
Treatment Journey
The lines sends chills down my spine! Exactly these were the days of August 2011 when I was going through this phase,with my son hanging between life and ........ Read more
News & Events
Remembering Loved Ones
Holding Hands Foundation supports patients and families throughout their treatment journey, especially cancer treatment. We have designed this program with the idea "You Trust Us, We Do the Rest." Read more
Foundation stone laid of Sharda Temple & Centre
LoC Teetwal was a traditional route of pilgrimage to Sharda peeth which was last stopped in 1948 after tribal raids and partition Read more
Saffron Cultivation in Sikkim
It should be noted that the saffron has been kept underground for about 45 days and the temperature should be below zero. Read more
Video Protest Rally against Jihadi Terrorist
Republic TV coverage of the rally Read more