London first stuck in my mind like glue when I was growing up in Kashmir. The familiar parental refrain would be ‘Zan Chi Landan Gatsun (as if you’re going to London) as they prepared me for school or any function. London must be beyond the Zabarwan mountains, I used to think. So, in 2016, I finally got to visit the United Kingdom. The culture shock, in the beginning,.
Shanty towns and suburbs in one of India’s fastest growing cities have yet to reap the benefits of economic growth. With the expanding skyline, open motorways, exponential growth in real estate, nightlife, and five-star hotels, Gurgaon – a city adjacent to Delhi – stands as one of the showpieces of India’s growth story. But in many of its surrounding suburbs and villages, such.
Narendra Modi, the frontrunner in India’s elections, has been drawing huge crowds as country prepares to vote. Baba Umar 26 May 2014 On Thursday, the dust never settled at a public park in Gurgaon – a suburb of India’s capital, New Delhi, which is dotted by offices of multi-national corporations and call centres. Interminable columns of people donning.
Elections seem to have further divided the communities in Muzaffarnagar which witnessed Hindu-Muslim riots last year. Baba Umar 31 May 2014 Between the flashes of development and long stretches of poverty, western Uttar Pradesh displays everything that is not right with India’s policy-makers. The northern Indian state sends 80 members to country’s parliament,.
May 2009 Srinagar Arif, now dead, was not meant to look like this. His rosebud lips, long face, bright and clear complexion contrast with the monster reality of how he was shot and killed. He was only 17 when he was aimed at and killed with the bitter accuracy of a “lawful” ‘uniformed- mercenary’. In his own mind, Arif was not a warrior of.
Baba Umar Srinagar, Aug 16, 2010 Rising Kashmir Close shave with death only hardened their resolve to fight to the finish Hit by bullets in the abdomen, hours of interrupted ambulance drive to the hospital, couple of small and big perforations, three-hour-long surgeries and now over two weeks in the hospital, they are ready to throw.
Baba Umar MyRepblica.com 22 Aug 2010 To the outer world, everything may seem hunky-dory in Kashmir. But inside the picturesque valley, situations these days are appalling. A single killing turns hundreds into mourners, and excesses on mourners push thousands to mutiny. The cycle of deaths repeats itself when soldiers and the local police kill another.
BABA UMAR April 10, 2013 Srinagar Named after Moscow’s Red Square, Lal Chowk in Kashmir’s Srinagar city has always intrigued me. It is an important part of Mughal King Jehangir’s paradise, at least for a person like me, who once frequented it almost every day. You can get lost in the labyrinth of its narrow lanes and by-lanes that all converge.
Baba Umar April 10, 2013 The contested region of Kashmir is forecast to witness various scenarios once allied forces have withdrawn from neighbouring Afghanistan; the most worrying one is the major comeback of the militants associated with the Taliban. As for anti-Indian Kashmir youth they may be dragged into yet another round of armed rebellion. In late 90s, the.
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