Tag: Kashmir's laugh doctor

By Sheikh Qayoom, Srinagar : Long before it was infected by violence and its streets reverberated with sounds of slogans and gunfire, Kashmir was a place where one could hear laughter in every household in the evenings when Nazir Josh, Kashmir's very own "Charlie Chaplin", used to come on Doordarshan (DD), the national broadcaster, with his facial expressions of total bewilderment, the street impressions of a joker and strong Chaplinesque elements in his walking style. In this conflict-ridden region where young people have grown up witnessing violence erupting in their public...