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Why is Kashmir's authentic food missing from menu of Valley's restaurants, eateries?

Aasha Khosa Kehwa, the cardamom-cinnamon flavoured green tea, traditionally brewed and served in a Somavar, is a quintessential Kashmiri beverage. The golden tea is an instant hit while the other unique tea of Kashmir (and the Himalayan belt) – pink salt tea - needs special taste buds to be appreciated. In its shahi (royal) version, a few strands of saffron and slivered almonds are also added to it. Friends and neighbours often d...

Aborted coup case exposes the link between terrorism and Pak Military

Aasha Khosa/New delhi In 1995, Pakistan was close to being taken over by a group of the renegade Army officers led by a General-rank officer who wanted to assassinate the then Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and declare the country as an Islamic system of Khilafat, on the lines of the ISIS. This secret has come out as the Pakistan’s Supreme Court recently dismissed the plea of two officers, involved in the conspiracy and later conv...

G-20 Summit begins on the note of extending India's people-centric approach across world

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi The overnight light showers came as a divine blessing to give perfect finishing touches to the star-spangled New Delhi as it hosts one of the biggest and the most grandiose of the global events – G-20 – that kicks off Saturday morning at the amazingly beautiful venue – Bharat Mandapam. The 18th summit of the world’s top 20 economies is being attended by more than 30 heads of state and...

Success of G-20 Summit can make India a strong contender for holding Olympics

Aasha Khosa The three-day G-20 Agriculture Ministers Meeting held in Hyderabad on food security is the classic example of India’s way of organizing the meetings of the world’s most powerful economies throughout the year was aimed at making the most of its presidency. External Affairs Minister S Jaishnakar told a news channel that India, as president of the G-20, was clear about taking this responsibility seriously. Givi...

Sarpanch Babita Bhat rewrites the rules of people-govt engagement in Kashmir

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi For the initial two years after Babita Bhat was elected Sarpanch of the Ladhoo-A village of Pulwama, South Kashmir, not many villagers knew they had a woman village head. “This information was deliberately kept away from the womenfolk. It’s only after I started interacting with the students of the government schools that the news about me spread making women come to me for work,” Babita, who is a...

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What did Kalam tell security man minutes before he died in Shillong?

New Delhi On July 27, 2015, when Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam reached Shillong after a four-hour road journey from Guwahati, Assam, to address the students of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) he asked his secretary Ghamanshyam Sharma to make him meet the security person who was standing with a machine gun mounted atop a vehicle in front of the convoy. When the security man came, Kalam apologized to him and said, “I am extremely so...

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APJ Abdul Kalam's memorial is the new pilgrimage site in Rameshwaram

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi In mid-December, when Suman and her husband Diwan Arora of Sonepat, Haryana, left for Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, for performing the pilgrimage to one of the holiest sites of Hindus, little did they know that their journey would also take them to another sacred place – a memorial to the son of the soil Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam aka Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam. “I didn’t feel like leavin...

Why Pakistani leaders call Kargil operation 'Musharraf’s misadventure?'

Aasha Khosa It was 24 years ago that Pakistan lost its credibility in the eyes of India and the world realized the catastrophic implications of Islamabad’s ambition of wresting J&K by hook or by crook. The Kargil conflict, triggered by the ambition of the Army Chief General Pervez Musharraf proved to be the last nail in the coffin of Pakistan’s trustworthiness as a state. The Kargil conflict was a two-month war provoked...

Where did Hurriyat vanish to pave way for peace in Kashmir?

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Once upon a time, there was a Hurriyat Conference that imposed hartal at the drop of a hat across Kashmir Valley; its leaders – former legislators, retired professors, small-time politicians, etc. - spewed venom against India and managed sustained propaganda against security forces. Also, till recently, armies of stone throwers sprang up in Srinagar and other towns of the Valley anytime and could easily bring li...

Charter of Makkah is Dr. Al-Issa’s contribution to making moderate Islam a popular idea

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Under Dr Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa’s leadership, the Charter of Makkah – a 30-point treatise for the Muslim world for creating a society that will reject terrorism, and extremism and connect Islam with other religions – has become the template for the promotion of moderate Islam whose followers can live with people of other faiths peacefully. The Charter of Makkah was endorsed unanim...

Saudi documenting Hadith to stop misuse by Islamic radicals, terrorists

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Saudi Arabia where sweeping changes are taking place to align this once-closed Kingdom to the fast-changing world is expected to give a compilation of the most authentic and verifiable Hadith, the sayings and deeds of the founder of Islam Prophet Muhammad, to the Islamic world. The Hadith documentation project is ordered by Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman who believes that in the absence of this, the plethora of ...

Indian Muslims do not invest in Jihad, bloodshed: Khalid Jehangir

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Khalid Jahangir, a prominent political activist and author from Kashmir, says he feels most proud of being an Indian Muslim while traveling abroad. “Unlike the passports of other Muslims from Islamic countries that have symbols of aggression like a sword or a falcon imprinted on the cover or have a green background to suggest a religious link, my Indian passport has Satyamev Jayate (Truth Triumphs ever...

How Pak terrorist Mast Gul tried to annihilate Sufism in Kashmir and failed

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Srinagar; May 11, 1995. In the wee hours, my phone rang. The person at the other end told me that the shrine at Charar-e-sharif was gutted. Though I, a news reporter based in Srinagar, was expecting this news, yet my heart sank. It was not just another religious place but the resting place of Kashmir’s patron Saint Sheikh Noorudin Noorani alias Nund Rishi revered by all Kashmiris irrespective of their reli...

Kashmir must showcase its Sufi, mystic traditions to the world: Dr. Naseem

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi What kind of images come to your mind when you think of Kashmir? Beautiful lakes, snow-clad mountains, boatmen ferrying tourists in their colourful shikaras inside the Dal Lake; horsemen helping tourists take a ride in the tourist resorts of Pahalgam and Gulmarg? Another image, perhaps, is that of Wazwan, the multi-course mutton-chicken food extravaganza thrown by people at an astronomical cost for guests, wedding...

Wild pigs from POK destroying paddy, orchards in Kashmir’s Hajin

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Syed Mushtaq Ahmed Parsa, a retired wildlife official of the J&K government, was shocked to see the images of a big pack of wild boar – estimated to be a herd of 200-400 animals - plundering apple trees and standing crops in Hajin, a village some 40 km northwest of capital Srinagar city, posted on social media. The animals had damaged the trees –debarked most of them – and attacked a woman wh...

Why Muslim Dalits enjoyed reservations for only 6 months in Independent India

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi For the first six-and-half-months of India’s independence, Dalit Muslims were entitled to reservations under Article 341 of the Constitution. However, on August 10, 1950, the President removed Dalit Muslims from the list of disadvantaged communities who needed reservations. This order impacted lakhs of Indian Muslims and sharpened the divisions within India’s largest minority group. “The move...

Why the G-20 Meeting in Kashmir is a new beginning

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi It will be after the gap of 40 years that Srinagar, the ancient city located on the banks of river Jhelum, will play host to an international event of significance. The city is all decked up to welcome the G-20 representatives for a two-day huddle of the working group on Tourism on May 23, and, this is a game changer. Forget about the event leading to any substantive economic gains or impact on tourism – alr...

Kashmir’s pad-woman Irfana says men build palatial houses but can’t buy STs for women

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Irfana Zargar, also known as the Padwoman of Kashmir for her pioneer effort at spreading awareness about menstrual health and hygiene in Kashmir, says she continues to battle the taboo and rigid attitudes of people on this crucial health issue concerning women. ‘Irfana Didi’, as the 31-year-old woman is called by her beneficiaries, says after creating a supply chain for the distribution of sanitary pad...

Article 370 going ended the anti-women inheritance regime of J&K

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi It may sound unbelievable but is true that the Muslim women of India’s only Muslim-majority State Jammu and Kashmir had no inheritance rights till 16 years ago. It was left to the whims and fancies of their male relatives to decide on the distribution of parental property and in most cases, it went to the male heir. A woman's wishes and aspirations were to remain a guarded secret, lest she faces ...

I did it for dignity of my daughters and all women: Shukkur who remarried under SMA

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Marriages are solemnized amidst chanting of mantra or taking vows on a Nikahnama in the presence of a Maulvi, but for advocate C Shukkur and his wife Dr Sheena Shukkur, it also had to be done in front of a Marriage Registrar and under the law of the land. On March 8 (International Women’s Day), specially chosen for its symbolism, C Shukkur, a Kasargod-based advocate, and Dr. Sheena Skukkur signed the documen...

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