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Desire, when transformed into aspiration, helps life soar into the highest liberation, and supreme salvation does not seem so out of reach, after all. ....
Khalid Bashir Gura Journalist Shakoor Rather’s debut novel Life in the Clock Tower Valley skims through Kashmir’s uncertain life. It takes off with a 2008 love story, unspools in the city landscape and soon nosedives into the troubled history of the place, the plot is set in. As the new generation, Kashmir has started telling their stories, they mostly revolve around the situations in which they grew up. Rather’s story is no different. It also offers mundane realities and emotions of life, records daily experiences and otherwise ignored observations. As the love story races through it, the plot stops the reckless lovers from the public display of passion. ....
Some of us were familiar with Indu Ma from a distance — she was popular as spiritual mentor to BCCL employees, and would sometimes hold knowledge sessions for those interested. I have often peeked down the corridor as she passed by, for a look-and-see, for she was a beautiful woman, so composed and confident. There definitely was an aura about her. ....
Not in my wildest dream did I imagine that I would be working closely with her one day, on a project that she and her family put their heads together to create launching a Sunday standalone eight-page broadsheet newspaper called The Speaking Tree, an extension of the much-loved column that appears six days a week in The Times of India. The column that was started in 1996 by Samir Jain and edited by Ranjit Hoskote in Mumbai, initially, inspired by Indu Ma’s passion to share inspiring, positive and thought-provoking knowledge and information, drawn from ancient scriptural wisdom, teachings of spiritual masters and contemporary philosophy hitherto not readily accessible to most readers. The intention was to give relief to readers who were on a daily diet of death, destruction, disease, disaster and doom to provide an oasis of hope that all is not lost, yet. She wanted us to widen our perspective from the negative to embracing everything in the wide spectrum of life and to choo ....