Nostalgia Knocking
I remember our walk down that dreamy lane
Your holding my hand to get me to that plane
Where we celebrated things from bliss to pain
And made our promises of keeping our secret game
As I look back I smile with a silent tear
Those days that passed us by were so dear
Today we may be far but to me you are so near
And I still love you the same with all my care
Sumreen Gojwari

Syed Ali Shah Geelani
Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Chairman, All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC), an amalgamate of several separatist group in Jammu & Kashmir, is considered a hardliner among the separatist leaders. For him the ‘Right of Self Determination’ to the people of Kashmir, under the United Nations resolutions had been the only focal point over the decades.  He talks about the environment and ecology, perhaps for the first time, with Zahoor Wani for ZunaGash.
ZunaGash: Of late, you have been talking about the environment and ecology of Kashmir. …

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I am a widow. I am thirty-two years old and I have four children. My husband died when I was 25 and pregnant with my last child.
I married my husband when I was 17 or 18 … I don’t know. He was three years older than me. It was 1992 and my village which is next to the Line of Control (LOC) was hot bed of militancy. My husband was called Sher-Dil (Heart of a Lion). He was so brave, so idealistic believing they would achieve independence for Kashmir.
We fell …

It was one of those occasions when two hungry men were given the key to the refrigerator. So thus opened the box full of sweets, opened only to feel the arrival of emptiness within just a minute of doing so.. Licking my fingers a question flashed, I wondered when was the first time when my mamu had his first sweet.