Syeda Afshana

Syeda Afshana is a faculty at Media Education Research Centre, University of Kashmir.
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Syeda Afshana
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The Romanov dynasty
"The king is easily fooled and manipulated by his courtiers, and ultimately overthrown by a revolution led by a group of children." [Representational Graphic]
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"Why do we, even in loss, try to feel stronger? Crave for a shoulder to cry upon? Brace up even when broken." [Representational Image]
"Maybe it’s the kindness of others that gives us liveliness. The way a stranger offers a smile or a helping hand when we need it most." [Representational Image]
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"She manages to fool the witch and frees herself with the help of a song written by a rockstar who later turns out to be her prince and what follows is a happy conclusion." [Representational Image]
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"The leaders of Kashmir have a record of committing ‘tragic errors’, unintentionally or otherwise, many a times."
"In this way, the changing seasons can be seen as a metaphor for the cycles of life and death, reminding us that everything is in a state of constant flux." [Representational Image]
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"In fiction, miracles are a common occurrence, ranging from subtle, symbolic to overt. They are used by authors to explore the boundaries of what is possible by creating surprise, incredulity and a sense of the divine." [Representational Image]
Earthquakes: Doctrine and Doom
"Known as the ‘poet of exile’, Agha Shahid grapples with his sense of sorrowful nostalgia. The map becomes a symbol of his journey through life, as he navigates through his memories and emotions." [Photo of Agha Shahid Ali]
"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]
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