Tag: Sheikh Abdullah


  • The controversial Faxgate mightโ€™ve thwarted his chief ministership bid in the fall of 2018, but the son of Abdul Gani Lone is only following his fatherโ€™s footsteps in order to recreate the northern front in Kashmir politics. A whisper first came amid the communication blockade of 2019 when a certain scribe detailed Centaurโ€™s captive life…

  • After Akbarโ€™s invading army faced an โ€˜oppressedโ€™ hatredโ€”โ€œPogi moghulโ€โ€”for being the first alien arm-twisters in the valley, the koshur slang only progressed with political shades and slurs throughout its โ€œNaya Kashmirโ€ resurgent phases.ย  As the two political pals rose to address the monarchy-liberated masses in Kashmirโ€™s Red Square in the late forties, the celebrated Persian…

  • Although they never fought on the frontlines, the forgotten women militia remains a standalone event in Kashmir history in which women took to streets and equipped themselves with arms, and trained themselves thereof. Seventy-three years ago, the tribesmen of North-Western Frontier of Pakistan marched into Kashmir, steadily journeying eastwards in the interest of โ€œfreeing Kashmirโ€…

  • After New Delhiโ€™s last summer step, the loyalist of Kashmirโ€™s grand old party and its โ€œtallest leaderโ€ felt disheartened, disappointed and deceived. More than a year back, as the valley woke up to the news of abrogation of Article 370, my grandfather Abdul Samad Dar took a routine walk in our sunny- cum-sullen lawn. With…