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Farooq Nazki reciting his poems at a function in Srinagar during 1970s. Bashir Aarif* It is shocking for me to believe that my guiding force in the field of broadcasting, Farooq Nazki, left this world after a prolonged ailment. A couple of months ago, I went to see him along with a friend Haleem Khan sahib at Narayana Hospital Katra. I saw him undergoing dialysis. But to my surprise, he talked to…

Yamini Koul JAMMU, Dec. 6: Rekindling the creative hopes of a community forlorn in the annals of civilization is “Bub,” a film in Kashmiri language based on a real-life incident and dealing with a contemporary issue. Bub, which in Kashmiri means father, marks another milestone in that it is the first film after a long gap of thirty-eight years that a Kashmiri film was made in the country. Apart…