With many printing presses and lot many newspapers around, the journalists in Jammu and Kashmir attempted and constituted many associations to articulate the issue the media was confronted with.
Successive rulers before and after 1947 have remained reluctant in encouraging English journalism in Jammu and Kashmir. Fighting odds, restrictions and outright denial of permissions, the English media always existed in the erstwhile state but never became the mainstay.
The freedom fighter is primarily remembered for the fight he put up against the British, and not his literary pursuits. Reproduced here are the first-ever English translations of two little-known poems penned by the revolutionary.