Syeda Afshana

Syeda Afshana is a faculty at Media Education Research Centre, University of Kashmir.
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Syeda Afshana
"Against this backdrop, can our writers afford complacency and bargain their intellectual jugglery for personal profit? Are we in a situation that can stand writings full of rabble-rousing and polemics so that our gen next is pushed into the black hole of annihilation?" [Representational Image]
Kids play cricket in the streets of Habba Kadal in Srinagar. [Representational Image]
Prof Rahman Rahi
"On the last fold of the paper, she saw something scribbled haphazardly." [Representational Image]
Jahangir Chowk ….
"All the same, plugging the loopholes or flaws in ourselves, in society or system or set-up is not altogether a chimera or a hopeless case. There is always a scope for amendment." [Representational Image]
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A rescue operation underway after a cable bridge collapsed in the Machchhu river, in Morbi.
"The dreams that she had weaved for her prosperous marital life were tangled. The void in the eyes of her daughter conveyed something cosmic but unfathomable."
"I couldn’t rewind the clock and travel to the point backwards when I was ignorant about everything. Oblivion was my oxygen. The void was venerable." [Image for representational purpose only.]
"Humans, of course, can’t be angels but let them not turn beasts, running amuck to fulfill their senseless whims and oblige their drossy impulses." [Representational Image]
"Perhaps those in chairs, big or small, fail to understand that one day the bucket will get filled up and then start leaking its content. The spillover is enough to get them down unceremoniously."
"A form of obsessive compulsion was named Narcissism." [Image used for representational purpose only]
"Like statistics, which is one of the means to augment creative accounting. Or psephology, through which figures are put up in a constructive style."
"Roy’s creative philosophy is quite rare. In a world where writing is more about self-promotion and self-profit, a part of the market industry, it appears inconceivable to see an award-winning author waiting for almost twenty long years for her Muse to take genuine flight!"
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"What we are left with is just “a brutality of thought and mistrust of subtlety”, to quote Frantz Fanon. And it’s a symptom of cruel catastrophe." [Representational Image]
"They emerge strong after they are hit hardest. They succeed with one more blow. Vagaries after vagaries."
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"So, we all like stories. We listen to them. We read them. With interest. With curiosity. They engage us. They hold us for a moment. And, they leave a message behind." [Representational Image]
"All his relatives and well-wishers had come to give blessings and good wishes to him when his name appeared on the selection list of teachers. His parents were full of pride in him." [Representational Image]
"Above all, the new world makes-up for the many things the lady has missed: maybe an innocent smile; a selfless gesture; the sincerity of purpose; and the significance of wisdom in everything." [Representational Image]
Talking History | We cannot escape the stigma even if we talk plain and bare his­tory
‘Bollywoodfication’ of marriages is glorified, and we brag of such absurdity and wastefulness of our social occasions.
"Displaying myriad literary influences, and speaking in many voices, the poet always tries to, with the needle of irony and ecstasy, weave his way through the warp of the past and present." [Representational Image]
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"My sight was blurred with the blood that was splashed on me. I thought to myself whether I was really made to exist to see this day." [Representational Image]
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"Actually, when you sacrifice and still sing; when you suffer and still smile; when you die and still live—that’s dynamism, that’s gallantry." [Image for representational purpose only]
"There were about 1.4 million firearm deaths in the US between 1968 and 2011 compared to 1.2 million US deaths in all wars ever fought by the country." [Image for representational purpose only]
Unfair End
Men watch as rescue operation is underway along Jammu-Srinagar highway where 10 laborers came under debris after a part of mountain collapsed on Friday.
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His crime is quite heinous.” “Sir, he is just a kid, don’t frame him in any militancy related activity….” she retorted back. Without listening to her, the officer angrily shouted, “I told you that his offence is more forbidding and I hold you people equally responsible for it. [Image for representational purpose only]
This Eid we can lend a helping hand to the people who really deserve our support. This will actually bring a true essence to this festival of empathy. [Representational Image]
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