Do Nothing This Eid
Since morning, there has only been news of blood.
As the day ends, a dark lake empties out of me.
I can do nothing to stop it.
I cannot escape the metal of its smell.
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Shatwooh – Twenty Six
Wande Magazine brings to Kashmiri readers and listeners our second audio story titled Shatwooh, written and narrated by Athar Rather.
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Making Sense of Mehbooba Mufti
It exposes her art of creating confusion among the readers’ mind to camouflage the ground realities in order to escape the responsibilities. Moreover, people wonder if Mehbooba, as a person, has her own ideas or not or she will keep quoting her father tirelessly?
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A Wande Mohneuv from Delhi
Who says snow is not political? A snowman is always a militant. The unending carpet spread over gaam-o-shehar is a slogan in itself. Sheeni jung is a net practice for stone throwing. In our national consciousness, snow is as sacred as what brings it, Wande.
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Fouji Chhuti Peth – Trooper on Leave
Fouji Chhutti Peth is the first short fiction ever written in Diacritical Roman Kashmiri language. The story is also Shahnaz Bashir's first Kashmiri language fiction.
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Numberalism: Numbers as symbolism?
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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