Maqbool Bhat’s famous 1969 speech at Muzaffarabad

by Muhammad Tahir
Posted on February 21, 2019February 21, 2019

Maqbool Bhat delivered this famous speech during the 1969 Muzaffarabad Convention of the Plebiscite Front. Mohammad Tahir translated this speech into English for Wande special issue on Maqbool Bhat. The speech is featured in JKLF publication Roshni Ka Shaheed Awal (First Martyr of the Light).

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Best Books I read in 2018 by Tahir Firaz

by Muhammad Tahir
Posted on January 2, 2019

Scholar-writer Muhammad Tahir shares with our readers the best books he read in 2018 and his impressions on each one of them.

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On Dolmut

by Muhammad Tahir
Posted on May 28, 2018May 28, 2018

In this reflective essay, Mohammad Tahir presents an interesting understanding of the Kashmiri expression Dolmut by examining a recent literary broil between a Kashmiri author, his followers and his critics and through personal anecdotes of the use of the word in varied situations and contexts.

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Numberalism: Numbers as symbolism?

by Muhammad Tahir
Posted on January 15, 2017March 15, 2017

In this essay Muhammad Tahir evokes Roland Barthes famous definition of myth to describe the symbolic appeal of numbers – and the power they hold – in the nationalistic and counter-nationalistic projects all over the world, including in Kashmiri struggle.

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Maqbool Bhat’s famous 1969 speech at Muzaffarabad

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Numberalism: Numbers as symbolism?