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This separation from Thee my Love! | a poem by Rasul Mir | 1820-1870
I can't withstand.
Helpless you made me,
I may perish in this grief.
Love enter this dwelling,
I shall lock the doors.
Without you, I am extinguished and
Thrown out from this dwelling of love.
I may…
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“Kashmir Daily” | a film preview | by Rajesh Prothi
A thriller set in ‘jannat’, around a tragic phase the Valley has been passing through. A clear cut story line revolving around a journalist, who has decided not to compromise with his profession, and…
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From the book | A Guide For Visitors to KASHMIR (1898)| John Collett
A guide for visitors to KASHMIR
Calcutta : W. NEWMAN & CO., DALHOUSIE SQUARE - 1898
Chapter : Coins
The Maharajah’s coins in circulation in Kashmir are the old Kham rupee, equal to 8…
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In the voice of a handicap | a poem | Shilpa Dhar
Do I crave?
Inside my lively grave,
With my fierce pain,
Hard to refrain,
Then why do you?
Oh people if should you yell,
Before you must tell,
Why are you making this earth a hell?
Two hands to work…
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How do I…a poem by Sadaf Masoodi
How do I plane the rebellion waves along the shore?
How do I make plea to the sands of time to stay still?
I stand perpendicular to the horizon and roar,
Drubbing the dogmas and breathing out a fresh…
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Compulsion…a poem by Zinda Koul (1884-1965)
Compulsion
One would cry and not restrain the tears,
But crying is of no avail,
Shedding incessant tears is of no avail,
And knocking one's head against
boulders is of no avail.
And knowing that…
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Stay close to me… a poem by Shishir Kaul
Stay Close to me
Open your eyes and see
Bursting through your seams,
From my mouth a wish leaves.
It breaks through the Rainbows
Now outside it's Dark red, green and yellow
Blinded by the sun now,
Do…
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Virgin Widows, a short story by Faruq Masudi
In the deep, dark forests of the mysterious Orient, you hunt Musk and with it, prepare a bath of honey and milk for me. You engage mermaids from million leagues deep Oceans to attend on me. My Kohl is…
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The History of Kashmir
By Francis Younghusband, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E.
Part 5
This reign was, too remarkable for the execution of an engineering scheme to prevent floods and drain the valley, a precisely similar idea to that…
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The History of Kashmir
By Francis Younghusband, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E.
Part 4
Passing now over a period of six centuries, the only authentically recorded event in which is the reign, A.D. 515, of Mihirakula, the ‘White Hun’, a…
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