Browsing Category
Culture
Kashmir : Our heritage | Edited by | Prof. K.L. Kalla | Part 5
Kashmir has contributed a lot to Pratyabhijna system of Kashmir Shaivism. It was originated by Somananda Utpaladeva Abhinava Gupta. (9th -12th AD). He must have been born by about beginning of the 12th Century at Parishaspora in…
Kashmir : Our heritage | Edited by | Prof. K.L. Kalla | Part 4
Part 4
Kashmir’s contribution to the Buddhist ideology and culture was first in chronological order. Ashoka sent Madyantika, a preacher to Kashmir to propgate the new faith. He founded 12 Viharas. According to Hieun Tsag, 500 monks had…
Kashmir : Our heritage | Edited by | Prof. K.L. Kalla | Part 3
Our Heritage. Part 3
According to Kalhana, “Astrologer, doctor, councilor, teacher, Minister, purohit, ambassador, judge, clerk: none of them was without learning” (Rajtrangani, Book VI, Verse 13). Scholarship was liberally…
Kashmir : Our heritage | Edited by | Prof. K.L. Kalla | Part 2
Our Heritage Part 2
Even Kalhana in his Rajatarangni emphazies the importance that people attached to learning. According to him, learning was one of the five things for which the Vally was reputed – he says, “learning, lofty…
Kashmir : Our heritage | Edited by | Prof. K.L. Kalla | Part 1
Our Heritage
The valley of Kashmir is a blessed valley because of its indescribable beauty – its lakes, rivers, rivulets, lush and rolling landscape, verdant hills and its backdrop of high snow-covered Himalayan ranges. “There is such a…
Conclusion : Political ideas of Mahjoor by Prof. Ms Tasneem Bakhshi | Part 10
Conclusion (continued...)
In examing these permanent elements in him, a few instances may be sought to prove this poem. He inducted the theme of workmen’s miseries in his poetry:
…
Conclusion : Political ideas of Mahjoor by Prof. Ms Tasneem Bakhshi | Part 9
Conclusion
Mahjoor’s essential contribution lies in a affecting an obvious departure from the planintive and melancholic philosophy of mystics belonging to the Kashmir School of Sufism. He changed ‘other worldly’ ideal of poetry…
Nationalism : Political ideas of Mahjoor by Prof. Ms Tasneem Bakhshi | Part 8
Nationalism in Mahjoor
A third factor was Mahjoor’s unshakable faith in the past. Nationalism is essentially a group memory of past achievements, traditions, and experience. A voracious reader of Kashmir history, it must have…
Nationalism : Political ideas of Mahjoor by Prof. Ms Tasneem Bakhshi | Part 7
Nationalism in Mahjoor
In order to trace nationalistic trends in Mahjoor, it is important at the outset to list briefly four to five factors, which were mainly responsible for strengthening such trends in his poetry. The first and…
On Revolution : Political ideas of Mahjoor by Prof. Ms Tasneem Bakhshi | Part 6
On Revolution
Poetry has always proved a great source for inspiring revolutions in the history of nations Mahjoor also was intensely conscious of this iron force working behind the delicacy of poetic thought. He proclaimed.
The…