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MEDIA TIMES ARMLESS ALLROUNDER ﻮر य ﯽ اﻟﻨ गम ﻟ ोत ﺖ ا ﻤ ٰ ा ﻠ ﻈ म ﻟ ो ا ﻦ स ﻣ म त U N IR IV M ER H SITY OF KAS MEDIA EDUCATION RESEARCH CENTRE UNIVERSITY OF KASHMIR JOURNALISS No.0975/6647 Vol: 27 No 1 MEDIA TIMES DECEMBER 2017 MEDIA TIMES DECEMBER 2017 06 | Wular Lake: A Heritage Lost 90 | Football In Kashmir–Marching Wajahat Shabir Ahead Silently 08 | Bhand Pather: A Lost Heritage Waseem Ahmad Munawar Hussain 92 | Replicating Emotions 10 | Trip To Ladakh Yawar Shafi Ali Mohammad 94 | Representation Of Aniconism 12 | Spirituality And Material Comforts In Islamic Art Syed Humaira Mujeeb Ul Feroz 14 | Carbon Imprint And Ladakh 95 | Crossing High Hurdles For A Free Zakir Hussain Run On The Rugby Field 16 | Untapped Gurez Sajida Yousuf Hayat Manan 97 | Silent Lips And Their Unsaid Words 18 | A Forgotten Legacy “Tilven Waan” Shaheen Shafique Useeba Bashir 98| Coaching Centres: The New Age 20 | Kashmir’s Famed Heritage In Scammers Floating Water Pirzada Shakir Nausheen Naseer 100 | Regressive Dogma And Stereotypes 22 | Trash Turns Treasure Still Plaguing Common Values Imran Ali Buth Bint Ul Huda 23 | Conservation Of Environment 101 | Bus Conductor Defies His Ego To Be In J&K Known As Dr Bhatt Madhiya Nabi Ayadullah Dar 25 | Aliens In Its Owned City 103 | Kwff: Reviving Film Culture Iqra Akhoon In Valley 26 | Book Stores In Kashmir Idrees Bukhtiyar Arif Nazir 105 | Natural Climates In J&K; Causes And 28 | Wetland Turns Into Wasteland CONTENTS Mitigation Adil Amin Shahjhan Mughal 30 | More Than Just A Place To Pray 107 | Innovation And Sculpturing Mu’azzam Bhat 57 | Budshah Tomb: A Loosing Heritage 74 | Walnuts:the Glory Of Kashmir Shaheena Raheem Firdous Azad Rahil Hussain 108 | Lonesome Libraries 34 | Burzahom Forsaken 58 | The Unfathomed Valley 76 | The Dying Art Sheikh Adnan Ikhlaq ul Rehman Kaiser Majeed 110 | Saving Our Food Culture 36 | Doodhpathri: The Meadow Of Faith Aaqib Hyder 60 | Paradise In Peril 78 | Educating SpeciallyAbled Chidren Peer Furqan Aneesa Khan Junaid Manzoor 112 | The Buffet: Kashmir Towards 38 | A Review Of ‘The Ministry Of Utmost A Challenge 62 | Chari Sharief : A Picture Of Sluggish Saba Khan Mcdonalized Society Happiness By Arundhati Roy’ Development B.M Hussain Faila Khan Farooz Ahmad 80 | The Upcoming Face Of Kashmiri 114 | Malls Prove Lucrative 40 | 'Dead Anchar’ 63 | Kashmir In Fiction: A Literature Historiography Muneem Farooq Ubeer Naqushbandi On The Rise Sadia Mir 116 | Old Age And Societal Apathy 42 | Dying The Yarn Tradition On Muhammad Nadeem 82 | Smart Phones-Not So Smart Anymore Hassina Khan The Brink Of Extinction Naveed Wani 118 | The Process Of Traditional 65 | Frames Speak Louder Than Words 83 | Syncretic Symbol Mehvish Mumtaz Syed Shehriyar Dry Cleaning In Kashmir 43 | Travelling In Terror Pardeep Singh Auqib Salam Shahzad Ashiq 67 | Human Capital Flight: Reduced To Zero 85 | Cluster Universities: A Way Forward 119 | Bullying “The Scars Remain Forever” 44 | Bumped Fine Arts Rashid Manzoor Danish Pathan Shabaz Qutub Hirra Azmat 68 | “Schooling Gujjar Community” 86 | Meet Emerging Thang Ta Sensation 121 | Kashmir And Its Beautiful Culture 45 | Repora:village Of Grapes Shabir Ahmad Irfan Tramboo Syed Mohammad Burhan Showkat wani 70 | The Floating Verdure 87 | The Golden Years Of Budshah 123 | Survival Of The Fittest 47 | Farmers Fear And Climate Change Qazi Tanzeela Shah Tawqeer Athar Shah Raja Asim 72 | Namda Machine: An Innovation 88 | The Other Side Of Hijab 124 | The “Metro” Of Kashmir 49 | Empowering Eve Peer Viqar Saba Gul Syed Bilal Tahir Bhat 126 | Crowning Glory: Yunder In Kashmir 50 | Scars Of Sexual Harrasment Qulsoom Musaib Mehraj 3 | Message from VC 4 | From HoD’s Desk 5 | From Editor’s Desk 127 | The Saga Of Verbal Racism 52 | The Exposition Of Urdu Language Syed Jesarat Nazima Rashid 129 | Broken Stick 54 | Reading: A Must Abid Rashid Hikmatyar 32 ARMLESS | Cover story ALLROUNDER 130 | Calligraphy In Kashmir 56 | Social Media Breathing Its Last Imran Naikoo Saher Iqbal Mudasir Majeed Feedback and Patron: he Media Times is a suggestions from the lab journal of Media readers are welcome Prof Khrsheed Andrabi Education Research © MERC 2017 Vice-Chancellor Center, University of Printed and Publisher by: Chief Editor: TKashmir. Its main purpose HoD MERC Faruq Masudi is to provide a platform to for and on behalf of University of Kashmir. Editor: the students and scholars to Muslim Jan hone their writing abilities Further information and to chisel their journalistic Write to: Graphics/Layout: skills. The journal builds Editor, Aga Shahi Media Education Research Centre, necessary confidence in them to take on the future University of Kashmir, Student Editors: Srinagar-190006 responsibilities as conscious Wajahat Shabir, Munawar Hussain, Adil Amin. e-mail: media practitioners in the [email protected], [email protected] society. 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. 2 MEDIA TIMES DECEMBER 2017 MESSAGE t gives me immense pleasure to learn the Media Education and Research Centre is publishing forthcoming issue of the Imagazine “Media Times 2017”. Modern day societies are undergoing fast and enormous changes and it is important that one keeps himself abreast with latest news, issues and trends taking place around him The departmental magazine, as such, serves as a medium to communicate to the outside world about different activities being undertaken at the institutional level. It is just about the right time for MERC to celebrate and share its trail of success stories, which are evident in National and International media already. I am hopeful that the present issue of Media Times does reflect the same. Prof. Khurshid I. Andrabi MEDIA TIMES 3 MEDIA TIMES DECEMBER 2016 CHIEF EDITOR'S MESSAGE Once a a family, family, Alwaysalways aa familyfamily Faruq MasudiMasudi Chief EditorEditor 4 MEDIA TIMES DECEMBER 2017 EDITOR’S DESK Journalism at Crossroad niversally, journalism stands for the advocacy of basic human values. These values, interestingly, are similar everywhere, thus the journalism in the east and the journalism in the west should be doing one and the same thing: advocacy. Worldwide, journalism has largely advocated for peace and conflict resolution. While doing so, it has, at times been successful, and at times it had to face Uthe brunt. The point here is that the journalism has got a vital role to play, given the change of guard that has taken place in the United States of America (USA), it has become pivotal for the journalists to maintain that image, where they always remain neutral, present different sides of the issue, and allow the masses to shape up their opinion. Post change of guard in the USA might also stir some behavioural changes in media in the USA, and those changes are simply going to reflect every where in the world. The change can be: journalist abandoning the path of advocacy, and in other words, journalism that always has stood for the advocacy of human values, may start treading a different path. This path may not encourage moderation. This path may not allow the journalist to stay neutral. This path may not allow the scribe to just present different sides of the story. This path may be a path that will encourage the journalists to take sides. Taking sides, and that too when it comes to a journalist taking sides, it surely is a catastrophe—catastrophe for the society and catastrophe for the very basic founding elements of journalism. Taking sides leads to the formation of propaganda machinery. It actually becomes the backbone of the machinery that spreads falsehood and misinformation. Thus, this propaganda is widely used to achieve different gains: political, economical and strategic. Power centres across the world, are trying to have ‘full’ or ‘some’ power over those who are having deep and penetrative eyes on certain things (journalists in this case). Directly or indirectly, these powers want to have control over them, which is alarming. This is dangerous for the free and independent press, as this indicates that the press that once was independent is disseminating the information that suits a particular power centre, and that helps in achieving any political or economic goal. Thus, again, as mentioned, the propaganda machinery comes into the existence. At this crucial, and decisive juncture the responsibilities is on the shoulders of the institutions that are producing a good number of journalists every year. The need of an hour is to inculcate the basic journalistic values in those who are willing to contribute to this field. They are to be taught: how not to compromise on the basic values, and how it is important to stand on the side of the truth. The institutions are duty bound to infuse a sense of deeper understanding and quest to know more among the aspiring scribes, because if the truth is to be brought into the limelight—that’s what the prevailing times are demanding—there has to be a deeper understanding and analytical bent of mind. There is a need that such institutions should make it clear that the outgoing scribes should not become a part of propaganda machinery, the machinery that kills the basic motive of journalism, and shrouds the noble profession with a cloth that turns it into something that’s murky. Let there be undeniable hard facts. Let no sides be taken; let lies and fabrications find no place in the world of journalism.