FJ Kashmir

Book: Rupture: stories on the sorrow of Kashmir  Translator: Dr Javaid Iqbal Bhat Author: Rattan Lal Shant   Publisher: Oxford University Press Pages: 144   inam ul rehman    For years I have been longing to read a book that makes me experience the Kashmiri Pandits condition in exile. Rahul Pandit ’s much-acclaimed book " Our moon has blood clots ” mostly dealt with Kashmir Pandits conditions in Kashmir peppered with exile ordeals in refugee camps. Siddharth Gigoo ’s “ Garden of solitude ”, which came earlier than Rahul’s book, partly mentioned the ordeals of living in a single tent under the scorching heat. However, nothing comes to mind which tells different stories of the same exiled communities.  In a way it's surprising that the Kashmiri Pandits haven’t written a lot on living in exile. Even only Ashok Pandit and Vidhu Vinod Chopra crafted two films— Sheen and Shikara . While the former is not much to be talked about the latter is a b...

inam ul rehman    Our society is a reflection of the façade of things we put on display. Maybe we like to be chaotic with no sense of responsibility. We want everything to happen on its own. That is why we don’t make our administration accountable. Whatever plan the administration puts in, we accept it.    Why do our city’s roads shrink rather than expand? Why does our city become chaotic with every passing year? There are many, many questions which we don’t ask our administrators.    Shrinking roads, traffic jams are because of shops on roadsides and vendors      Take the example of the roads. Wherever roads are constructed shops pop up making it difficult to ply vehicles. Because when shops come on the roadside people have to stop to buy things, and the Srinagar Municipal Corporation never asks shopkeepers to keep car space. People start to believe that parking on the roads is their birthright. As a result, a road of 25 feet gets reduced ...