In Kashmir, we have a saying, at times attributed to the great poet Mahjoor (1887-1952), in the form of a lament of a sheep, that loosely translates as,” Only the faces of my butchers have changed – tools of oppression remain the same,”! I was...
When Mrs Indira Gandhi, imposed Internal Emergency in India (1975), Dr Dharamveer Bharti, the editor of well-known Hindi weekly Dharam Yug, published his famous poem,” Khalq Khuda Ka” 'खल्क खुदा का, मुल्क बादशाह का' in protest.