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Communist Party of India (Marxist) MLA from Kulgam, Mohammed Yousuf Tarigami, ran his eyes over the framed photographs of Cuban revolutionaries Fidel Castro and Che Guevara nailed on the wall of the wood-panelled room of his residence in Srinagar.

Seventy-six and silver-haired, Tarigami gestures at portraits of Abdul Ahad Azad and Faiz Ahmad Faiz, insisting Kashmir remember its revolutionaries too for their love and humanism.

“Azad was a revolutionary poet. People in Kashmir need to read about him and understand his contribution,” he says, adding that the words of BR Ambedkar -- whose photo also adorns the wall -- remind Kashmir of humanism in a time of hate. True revolutionaries, he adds, are driven by love.

Tarigami is a rare politician in Kashmir who has cons

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