Kashmir is lexically rich. It is the silicon valley of phrase-innovations. You can publish a separate Oxford Kashmir Dictionary, which will have unique words generated in and about Kashmir. Here I present few samples for you: Pelleted: 1
Congratulations fellow patriots,” said the triumphant headmaster of the Brexiter School, Nigel Big-Mouthed Farage, after 52 percent Britons were convinced by him that divorcing the grand communal kitchen EU was better than having to put up with ubiquitous Romanian sarmale and Polish
I heard Prince died. You heard too? I bet you did. Of course everyone did. He was 57, wasn’t he? You see, we even know that he died “suddenly”. This news was conveyed to me by that grumpy old josser
I have been informed by my sources (read senses), though they may not be as reliable as Times Now and Zee News (read non-senses), that after the JNU kerfuffle, the newsfeed-space has been turned into a bloody Mad Max: Fury Road, in which a particular
A figure—a luminous figure that was—moved through a swirling haze of blue steam, ambling on in a seamless slow motion through a passage created by a long but strong chain of policemen; a throng of agitated bodies swayed ceaselessly behind
On the day the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its 2016 Oscar nominees, it created some fervour, if not complete furore—the ancient devil had cast its ominous spell on Oscardom, rendering it, for the second time in
On New Year’s Eve, the globalised custom dictates that we make some good resolutions. Believe me, though, in most cases such resolutions turn out to be like toilet paper—the slightest touch of water dilutes them irreversibly. Instead, I think it
Teachers’ Day in September this year was a day of grand celebration for climate-change deniers the world over, and they must be wallowing in self-praise. They got a new chubby pot-bellied member in their club, a high-profile globetrotter whose reckless
In the run-up to Modi’s rally in Srinagar on 7 November, Kashmiri social media was speculating how low Mufti Syed would stoop to appease his big brother Modi. Lo and behold, he didn’t so much stoop low as crawl like
If someday I am to write a book, I will certainly be interested in dirtying my hands in the murky waters of history writing; but I am not sure how I would go about doing it. One thing that I