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Shujaat Bukhari was one of the most vital, balanced and well-informed voices in Kashmir. Perhaps for this reason, the 50-year-old journalist was shot dead by motorcycle-borne gunmen in Srinagar on the evening of June 14, 2018, as he was leaving the office of Rising Kashmir. A voice has been silenced. But before he was killed, Shujaat Bukhari documented for Frontline magazine the damage done to Kashmir. This book collects Shujaat Bukharis reports from May 2017 to his assassination. He reflects here on the policies of the Indian state (including the impunity given to the army), the hate-filled politics of the Hindu Right (exemplified in the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua), the alienation of the Kashmiri people, the protests of young people (and their use of social media) and the rise of a new kind of militant (such as Burhan Wani). These are detailed assessments, essential reading for anyone who wants to know about the old and new forces inside Kashmir. The pieces offer insights into the ways and means to bring about lasting peace in the Valley - a cause for which Shujaat lived and died.
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S HUJAAT B UKHARI (1968-2018)
was a journalist based in Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir). He was the Srinagar correspondent for Frontline and was the editor of Rising Kashmir . Between 1997 and 2012, he was a correspondent for The Hindu . Shujaat started the Urdu daily Buland Kashmir and the Urdu weekly Kashmir Parcham as well as the Kashmiri language paper Sangarmal . He was president of the Abadi Markaz Kamraz, a literary forum to promote the Kashmiri language. An honest and well-informed journalist, Shujaat survived three assassination attempts before he was brutally gunned down outside his office on June 14, 2018. He is survived by his wife Tahmeena and two children.
First published in September 2018
First ebook in October 2018
First ebook in October 2018
LeftWord Books
2254/2A Shadi Khampur
New Ranjit Nagar
New Delhi 110008
INDIA
LeftWord Books is the publishing division of Naya Rasta Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
Individual essays The Estate of Shujaat Bukhari, 2018
Shujaats voice R. Vijaya Sankar, 2018
Shujaat Bukhari: A man of peace R.K. Radhakrishnan, 2018
This selection LeftWord Books, 2018
The essays by Shujaat Bukhari in this compilation were first published in Frontline magazine, and are reproduced here with the kind permission of the publishers of Frontline magazine.
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Contents
by R. Vijaya Sankar
by R.K. Radhakrishnan
R. Vijaya Sankar
At a recent interaction of some senior journalists with a batch of student-journalists recruited by Ananda Vikatan , a leading Tamil weekly, as part of its 35-year-long training programme, a young man stood up and posed this question: What security do journalists have in the line of duty? His concern emanated from the recent instances of coldblooded murder of journalists in India. Courage is the only armour that a journalist has when his/her detractors choose to take up the gun as an answer to media criticism. This was the reply given by one of the senior journalists who attended that session. This is especially true of journalists working in a region of multiple conflicts between terrorism and state terror and between a state that failed to keep its promises and a population that is getting increasingly alienated from it.
The names that immediately come to ones mind in this context in India are Kashmir and Syed Shujaat Bukhari. The 50-year-old journalist was shot by motorcycle-borne gunmen in Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) on the evening of June 14 as he was leaving the office of Rising Kashmir , a broadsheet he founded in 2012.
As a colleague who had interacted with Shujaat over the phone for close to a decade until three days before his assassination, I had never detected a trace of fear or trepidation or caution in his voice that one would normally associate with a person living dangerously in a region which, as The Hindu Groups Chairman N. Ram put it, is full of dangers and traps. My surprise only increased during our two meetings in the past three years, the last one in December 2017 when he visited Frontline s office with his wife. He was full of cheer, passion for his profession and concern and love for the people of Kashmir, who have been facing a cruel dilemma of the kind Matthew Arnold expressed through these immortal lines, Wandering being caught between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, with nowhere yet to rest my [their] head.
Shujaats association with Frontline began during his days as The Hindu s Kashmir correspondent between September 1, 1997 and March 31, 2012. The association had grown stronger since 2013. As pointed out by John Cherian, the magazines world affairs specialist and former chief of the New Delhi bureau, we asked Shujaat to do the lead article for a cover story in the context of the hanging of Mohammed Afzal Guru, an accused in the Parliament building attack case, on February 9, 2013. At short notice he wrote an incisive piece. Since then, Shujaat started working virtually as Frontline s Srinagar correspondent. Even as I thought of covering a new development on Kashmir, there would be a phone call or a WhatsApp message, telepathic as it were, from him expressing his wish to write (sometimes taking the liberty of insisting on a write-up depending on the urgency of the situation). I could say confidently that not a single coverage of Kashmir in Frontline went without his by-line.
Shujaats objectivity, despite his deep involvement in many peace initiatives involving associations and negotiations with various players, through conferences and meetings in India and abroad, was best summed up by Ram, who was Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu Group of Publications during Shujaats tenure as a correspondent for the group. Paying tribute to Shujaat in an interview to NDTV a few hours after the assassination, Ram said, He was not a governments man. He was not an establishments man. Nor was he in sympathy with the extremist elements... He was a voice for a just solution, however difficult that is going to be in Jammu and Kashmir.
Shujaats is a voice that I would miss personally and professionally. I am sure this volume, a collection of articles that Shujaat wrote for Frontline , will go some way in assuaging the sense of loss that his family, colleagues and friends have and offer insights into the ways and means to bring about lasting peace in the valley a cause for which Shujaat lived and died.
R.K. Radhakrishnan
In May 1997, a group of journalists who had completed the first leg of the War Correspondents Course training at the Indian Armys Military Intelligence School, Pune, were posing proudly with their certificates. Shujaat Bukhari and I were part of that course renamed Defence Correspondents Course by the Ministry of Defence (MoD), though much of the Armed Forces continued to call it the WCC. It was still early days of such training; we were the second batch of the MoD course.
Shujaat took the certificate from acting Commandant Brigadier Sharabjit Singh and stared at it for a while. The banner on the certificate read Military Intelligence School and Depot. I cannot take this home, said Shujaat.
This will be enough to brand me an Indian agent, he added. For us, it was the first insight into Kashmir. A few of us from the course approached him because his statement seemed too short and abrupt. My first class on Kashmir was that evening: at the bar of Int. School, which served rum at Rs 3.85 a peg. Shujaat, a teetotaller, patiently answered each of our questions.
Later that summer, Shujaat would refuse to participate in the battle inoculation exercises. The journalists had to crawl along a trench for about 20 metres even as medium machine guns opened up a few safe feet over us. This is almost a daily event in many parts of Kashmir, he said when asked why he did not participate in the exercise.
In some ways, this is how Shujaat narrated the life he lived to many of us. Pankaj Maniktala, now a senior journalist from Nagpur, was part of the same course. He remembers how during the course each time a senior Army officer addressed us or engaged with us informally, Shujaat would ask probing questions. He would know when and where the officer served in Kashmir, the officers predecessor and successor in the post in the Valley and would ask specific questions about the conduct of the Amy during the tenure of the officer. This made some of the officers uncomfortable. But Shujaat always allowed the officer some leeway. It was almost like saying nothing is ever forgotten in the Valley , Maniktala added.
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