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Jagmohan: The lion who saved Kashmir and the Hindus May 5, 2021, 6:12 PM IST
The breeze from Indus, a Shiva mantra at Kailas, a trek in Chushul and a chadar walk on frozen Zanskar. All this put together describes Tarun Vijay. He is a former BJP member of Rajya Sabha. The blog revolves around everything that is Mother India and her concerns. LESS. MORE
What is our vision of India and what is Kashmir’s place in that vision? This is the fundamental question – Jagmohan
Jagmohan’s passing away has ended an era in India’s public life that is marked with courage, commitment to nationalism, constitution, philosophical understanding of our past, and an uncompromising mindset to achieve goals for the unity of the nation.
Jagmohan- the savior statesman who awakened India
Tarun Vijay What is our vision of India and what is Kashmir’s place in that vision? This is the fundamental question.- Jagmohan Jagmohan’s passing away has ended an era in India’s public life that is marked with courage, commitment to the nationalism and the constitution, philosophical understanding of our past and an uncompromising mindset to achieve goals for the unity of the nation. He was a colossal , with multifaceted qualities. An author, administrator, thinker and civilizational scholar , a visionary and a sharp minded statesman. His contribution to save Kashmir from savage jihadists is a most remarkable part of his life. But equally important have been his initiatives to unshackle Mata Vaishno Devi management from an archaic rotten system , which is no less than a renaissance as it effected millions of Hindu devotees. Today every devotee going to Mata Vaishno Devi thanks one person- and that is Jagmohan. When we c
The writer is Dawn’s correspondent in Delhi.
LISTENING to communist icon Kobad Ghandy express his affection for Afzal Guru the late fellow inmate in Delhi’s Tihar jail one couldn’t help missing the love of literature and music the dead Kashmiri fruit vendor shared with a generation of Indians and fellow Kashmiris. Much of that has disappeared. As Mark Antony says, perhaps, the good is oft interred with the bones.
Guru believed in the hereafter like my mother, for example, who hoped to be able to meet the classical vocalist Gangubai Hangal in paradise, and persuade her to sing for her under a large mango tree. For the three years he spent sharing his morning tea with the alleged Maoist leader in prison, Guru told him of his imminent meeting in jannat with some of the greatest cultural and spiritual legends he admired, one such being Allama Iqbal. Among his temporal guides was Noam Chomsky who he read religiously during a dozen years in Tihar.
Shutdown being observed in IIOJK on Maqbool Bhat s martyrdom anniversary
Published On 11 February,2021 10:58 am
India had hanged Muhammad Maqbool Butt in New Delhi s Tihar Jail on 11th February in 1984.
SRINAGAR (Dunya News) – In Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, complete shutdown is being observed on Thursday (today) to mark the 37th martyrdom anniversary of prominent Kashmiri leader, Muhammad Maqbool Bhat.
Call for the shutdown has been given by the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front and other pro-freedom organizations.
India had hanged Muhammad Maqbool Bhat in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail on 11th February in 1984 for his leading role in the Kashmiris’ ongoing freedom movement and buried him in the premises of the prison. Indian authorities have not returned the mortal remains of the martyred leader to his family for proper burial despite consistent demand by the people of the occupied territory.