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JOURNAL | ISS No. | 0975/6647 | Vol: 28 | Issue 0 1 MEDIA TIMES | DECEMBER 2019 MEDIA TIMES A SLICE OF TIBET ﻮر य ﯽ اﻟﻨ गम ﻟ ोत ﺖ ا IN KASHMIR ﻤ ٰ ा ﻠ ﻈ म ﻟ ो ا ﻦ स ﻣ म त U N IR IV M ER H SITY OF KAS University of Kashmir Hazratbal Srinagar-190006 A SLICE OF TIBET 36 | Cover story IN KASHMIR Aarif Shah 06 | Shamas: A LIBERATING VOICE Sadaf Masoodi 08 | Muharram IN KASHMIR Mirza Sharafat 24 | Hanji's OF KASHMIR Rooh Yaseen 38 | THE Inheritance OF LOSS Afshan Mir 2 MEDIA TIMES MEDIA TIMES DECEMBER 2019 10 | Sir Syed Ahmad Khan 40 | Toddlers at Varsity Sheikh Abid Insha Rani 41 | Sacred Games 12 | Gestational Diabetes Sheikh Arsh Imania Imtiyaz 14 | Journey of Kashmir Carpet 42 | HouseFull 4 Abid Aleem Syed Mudawar 16 | Hazratbal Friday Market: A cynosure Wasfi Amin 44 | Digital Entrepreneurship Haris Arshid 18 | We, the Tri-glots! Obaid Bashir 46 | Saga of Defying Parental Abuse Fazil Buch 20 | B2V: Governance at Door Step Gowhar Iqbal 48 | Harisa: Kashmir's winter delicacy Maleeha Irshad 22 | Debunking Islamophobia Tahil Ali 49 | Andhadhun Hyder Ali 26 | Noon Chai with Family! 50 | Machami Shrine: Kashmir Symbolic Muneeb Naqeeb Mehvish Dilshad 28 | Houseboat: A Dream Stay 52 | Budgam’s Dying Springs Saima Shakeel Fazlu Rehman 30 | Naseem Bagh 54 | Jamia Masjid: Historical Chronicle Fajar Shora Ubaid Gul 32 | Rise of the Real Kashmir FC 56 | Dal Lake: A Picturesque Heritage Schnian Meer Sahil Iqball 34 | A versatile terrain Peer Ki Gali 58 | Kabir Singh Shahid Bashir Minya Tufail 4 | Message from VC 5 | HoD’s Desk Feedback and suggestions from the Patron: he Media Times is a lab readers are welcome Prof Talat Ahmad journal of Media Education © MERC 2018 Vice-Chancellor Research Centre, University Printed and Publisher by: Chief Editor: of Kashmir. Its main purpose HoD MERC Dr, Aaliya Ahmed T for and on behalf of is to provide a platform to the University of Kashmir. Editor: students and scholars to hone their Afsana Rashid Further information writing abilities and to chisel their Graphics/Layout: journalistic skills. The journal builds Write to: Aga Shahi Editor, necessary confidence in them to Media Education Research Centre, University of Kashmir, Student Editors: take on the future responsibilities Srinagar-190006 Sadaf Masoodi, Tahil Ali, as conscious media practitioners in e-mail: [email protected], Wasfi Amin, Arif, Afshan Mir, Sheikh Arsh the society. [email protected] All the contributions are the students/scholars of Mass Communication and Journalism at MERC KU. Opinions, views, reports & essays in this issue do not necessarily represent the views of the faculty of MERC. The author are solely responsible for the facts stated including the source of the information and references. The Editor or the centre is not responsible for any kind of plagiarism. 3 MEDIA TIMES 3 am pleased to know that the Media Education Research Centre (MERC) is ready with yet another edition of its Ijournal, “Media Times”. Media is a bone to every democracy and MERC being research centre for media education is motivated to build, within our students, the moral ethics and principles which are indispensable for being a factual correspondent. Journals of such kind are not only the potent assets of nay organization but also a podium for the students too let MESSAGE them have their freedom of expression. I strongly believe MERC will continue to work as a diligent group for identifying and promoting the skill of our youth particularly related to journalism. Media Times emerging as an annually scheduled journal, with another publication this year, proves its success which is highly appreciable and commendable. I convey my best wishes and good luck to the editorial team of Media Times. Prof. Talat Ahmad 4 MEDIA TIMES 4 edia is essentially meant for nurturing and promoting participatory culture, wherein there is a huge scope for artistic expression and community engagement. In a participatory Mculture, members share their content and develop some degree of social connection with one another. In a way, it helps build a democratic method of communication. Such a media practice is paramount for inculcating and grooming ideas of freethinking and intellectual augmentation. More so, in a world where mind-control is ascribed to media-control, participatory culture becomes crucial for bringing forth empowered concept of expression and skill-development. As of now, we face many challenges in learning to MESSAGE recognize the ways in which media shapes perceptions of the world. We need skills and competencies to understand this paradigm of increasingly vital public role as media makers and community participants. MERC has always endeavored to foster such a culture in newly emerging media landscape. It involves new media literacies that are learned through critical-analysis skills, research and reporting activities. Media Times, our departmental magazine, has always tried to be a part of this endeavor by encouraging participatory culture wherein students experiment and become skilled communicators. I value and appreciate the hard work put in by MERC students and the whole editorial team. Kudos to them! Dr. Aaliya Ahmad Head 5 MEDIA TIMES 5 MEDIA TIMES DECEMBER 2019 HIS EYES BURNED WITH A STRANGE DESIRE AND BEWILDERMENT. HIS EYES HELD A WORLD BEYOND THE IMAGININGS AND MEANINGS, YET THERE WAS NOTHING MORE MEANINGFUL THAN SUCH DESIRES AND BEWILDERMENTS OF SOMETHING UNSEEN. SHAMAS: A LIBERATING VOICE hat day my heart was restless And in between the unfought wars, again when I sat by the old, Shamas is halted from becoming. We fail wrecked window gazing at the him, and his belief in the power of the child loftyT Himalayas. My scares consoled my within each one of us, to set us free. heart in hazy lights of that winter evening As we grow to exercise more control, we when everything was settling while I was keep killing that child, who wails to persist. struggling for identity, elusive and burning We fear to secure the innocence of this child by the embers in the grate. his rightful place in our lives. We shut him 'History is now' and me! up because it is this child who wants us The string of consecutive winters of loss to believe in the magic of life. And as we and longing and of denying the freedom discipline his voice, our ‘grown-up’ self starts to wilderness appeared unabated. I used to sink in the sadness of its maturity. to tell myself that one day the war within Shamas, from the leaflets of fortune for shall seize to be. His face would fade away me, proved his non-concurrence and non- eventually but I loved eating almonds for affiliation with my endeavor. High up, had memory; the cyclic seasons witnessed me, he been scripted in my drama and my reality. puffing him up in every cold breath and He came swirling like a Sufi in raqs to warm breath. I watched him appear and teach me, defying this violence within, for disappear just to appear again. So close was freedom of that child. Shamas wanted me to he, as if flowing with my sluggish blood, believe in the child of my heart, he wanted inside my veins. Though I kept whipping to see people shed their cunning. It was as the stray thoughts inside my mind, the mad if he had journeyed all the places of detest heart never obeyed! It kept conversing with and now wanted a company to the station of him in some secret language, babbling some love. His eyes narrated his tales and fondness Aramaic words, I failed to seize. Because the for freedom. heart knew that Shamas had come to free I read his eyes and that was all I could me, from the prisons of rationality. do silently in my cunning. His eyes burned As Shamas would look into my eyes, with a strange desire and bewilderment. His and say, "To love is to love like a Sufi and eyes held a world beyond the imaginings denounce predictability like Rumi." and meanings, yet there was nothing Sadaf Masoodi It is in the commonest rituals of a day that more meaningful than such desires and we miss the magic of life. Life but gives you bewilderments of something unseen. His Apprehensive of occasions to break free from its humdrum. eyes evoked pain in some remote parchment realities, we often Few have the vision to recognize and of my heart. I read poetry in them and miss the magic of madness. We fear courage to embrace risks that come their the meters would change like the color of traveling the roads, way to liberate them from the burden of his eyes between black and brown, in the meant to be traveled; remembrance, which consumes them later. presence and absence of sun. There was we fear change, the essential change, we Apprehensive of realities, we often miss passion. starve our hearts and the magic of madness. We fear traveling In the imprisonment of rationality, we souls of love. the roads, meant to be traveled; we fear kill that child who catches the sight of this change, the essential change, we starve our passion, a Shahid. We kill him and the hearts and souls of love. Cleverness, a cruel beauty of our dreams in his eyes, the dream trait restrains the joy that wandering in of freedom. We torment him from the fears wilderness promises. We deny miracles of of defeat than believing him in the battle love in the dread of consequences, we don’t and he loses bit by bit, the shreds of hope. In let go of predictability.