For several years, Muzaffar Wani, a middle-aged school headmaster, lived an ordinary life in Sharifabad village of South Kashmir. Today, he is known as ‘Burhan Wani’s father’, as the man who ‘sacrificed’ two sons for the sake of Kashmir’s ‘azadi’. Burhan holds sway even after his death and the slogan everywhere is: ‘Tera bhai mera bhai, Burhan bhai, Burhan bhai’. Read | Burhan Wani: Better living than dead? That’s the story of Kashmir.’’ Muzaffar Wani, who has been listening to the conversation, says, “Our generation feared guns.

Source: Hindustan Times August 22, 2016 02:18 UTC