Faizaan Bashir

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Writer at Freelance

I may not agree with whatever I comment on, post, quote-post, like, and so forth.

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Repressions & Remains!

5 days ago | greaterkashmir.com | Faizaan Bashir

With this, I have completed forty four articles published by this esteemed newspaper. I am immensely grateful for the feedback, constructive or critical, I received from the readers. No matter the topic of my pieces, from bizarre to dejecting, I kept writing. Whenever I happened to be low on my wheels, GK came as a medium through which I channeled my bitterness, sourness, and sadness.
Bloodshed and Bruises!

2 weeks ago | greaterkashmir.com | Faizaan Bashir

When we come across something that makes us feel uncomfortable, we either stand up to it or we back off. The former doesn’t cause problems, as emotions are shot forth and done and dusted there only. The real danger begins when we repress our emotions without finding a healthy outlet. We might feel safe avoiding sticking up for ourselves, but the emotions buried keep accumulating in the unconscious. They don’t die—they just pile up.
We bleed together!

3 weeks ago | greaterkashmir.com | Faizaan Bashir

Shock waves wash over the whole of Kashmir as innocent tourists fell victim to the evil forces in Pahalgam recently. It pains me to see the tourists crying and traumatized, mourning over the irrevocable losses. It’s a deed that even the worst of humans don’t endorse. It’s a tragedy. Words just fall short. That said, I feel compelled to point out that Islam doesn’t approve of killings. Comments and seething anger and misplaced blame over social media target Islam for the violence.
Is it safe to cross the road?

4 weeks ago | greaterkashmir.com | Faizaan Bashir

Of late, I struggled to cross the road at Lalchowk. It felt as if generations would pass on without me finding myself on the other side of it. The rush of vehicles passing and the sound of “Puu-Puu” on one side, and me and a couple of others on the other—frustratingly disoriented. While the former might have reasonably reached their destinations in time, we helplessly wasted minutes and waited for divine intervention to put a pause on it.
Act stiff, and we are doomed!

1 month ago | greaterkashmir.com | Faizaan Bashir

The world has undergone a major shift with respect to everything: feelings that we shouldn’t express, personal opinions that don’t count, and sharing and caring that are deadwood now. Everything has become stiff and stern vis-à-vis human approaches. I fear the moment to come where a genuine query may translate into a sin committed, the gravity of which will have no place amid the ever-occupied humans. I fail to fathom why humans have turned stony enough to place everything in a dustbin.
More than fasting!

2 months ago | greaterkashmir.com | Faizaan Bashir

It feels as if we started fasting yesterday—more than a week has passed. Another week (or another day), and we are halfway through it. Another two weeks (or another two days), and we are done with it. But what, apart from fasting and restraining ourselves from what we do on non-Ramadhan days, symbolizes the thirty days of Parhezgari? Ramadhan allows us to connect with our deeper selves.
Kashmir University’s depressing groove!

2 months ago | greaterkashmir.com | Faizaan Bashir

Disrespecting time, passing the buck cleverly, and frustrating a student—that’s the crux of the story that follows. This piece would have never been recoursed to but for the extremely troubling experience a student suffered at the hands of a slew of people employed in the whole examination block ordering students to comply with their cocky directions: go downstairs, then upstairs, wait till tomorrow, or come days later.
No contempt, please!

Feb 11, 2025 | greaterkashmir.com | Faizaan Bashir

Ages have passed since the existence of the earth, but human folly has remained – as a legacy. From the times of slavery to racism to colonialism, we successfully stood our ground—as a matter of survival—but human madness lived on. The only difference that remains is that we were engulfed by primitive dark urges then and civilizational—faulty—thinking now. That’s disappointing!Not so long ago, social media was flooded by a video of famous YouTubers — Ranveer Allahbadia and Samay Raina et al.
Remembering Death!

Feb 2, 2025 | greaterkashmir.com | Faizaan Bashir

I woke up early in the morning, scrolled through social media, and prepared myself for my work, and thus done and dusted with the day. But something strange happened here that shook me, as if something, emerging from the heavens, grabbed me by the arm, and had me envision death; me dead, everyone dead, nobody left. FLASHES!I wasn’t ready for this, though. Neither imagined nor thought about it before, folks! The journey of life, however, was squeezed down to a matter of seconds this time.
We can handle it!

Jan 22, 2025 | greaterkashmir.com | Faizaan Bashir

Greater Kashmir, on January 5th, 2025, published an editorial highlighting an abnormal spike in cancer cases in Kashmir. Several people have become victims of the disease, draining their emotional and psychological facets, besides causing irreparable damage to their physical health. Thousands are battling it, and many more may be on the verge of getting caught in its ferocious tentacles. Darkness has a chink of light invisibly embedded in it; the same goes for the case here.