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Books

Kashmir has been written about for centuries. Off late, owing to the peculiar situation Kashmir is in, almost every south Asian scholar has written a book on Kashmir. This section offers detailed reviews of the Jammu and Kashmir related books, interviews and profiles of the authors, besides, vital excerpts from the books written recently and in past.

A Home Visit

After migrating from Kashmir in the early 1990s as a child, Kashmiri Pandit writer and actor, Manav Kaul came on a home visit and...

Kashmir Stories

Four Kashmiri literary scholars joined their heads and hands to unveil the literary genius of Hari Krishna Kaul for the twenty-first-century generation. The translation...

A Superpower Tragedy

After the erstwhile USSR invaded Afghanistan in 1979 and the USA cobbled a partnership with Pakistan to undo the occupation, Kabul fell into despair...

Understanding Pir Panchal

Officer scholar, KD Maini’s book on Pir Panchal that Gulshan Books published is a vital contribution in understanding the enigmatic ‘frontier’ of erstwhile Kashmir,...

Opulent Memoires

Prominent oncologist, Dr Shiekh Aejaz’s self-published memoir offers harrowing glimpses of the tragedy and travails of nameless people who fought cancer, writes Shakeela Shawl Reviewing...

The Azaad Memoir

For nearly half a century, Ghulam Nabi Azad rose from the ranks to the heights in Congress and the government in Delhi. He became...

Tyndale Biscoe: An Unconventional Educator

After giving nearly 60 years to alter the course of Kashmir’s education, CE Tyndale Biscoe left the Vale reluctantly in 1947, only to live...

Decades of Dreams

Satinder Kumar Lambah has been the most respected Indian diplomat who worked on India-Pakistan bilateralism. Muhammad Nadeem goes through his memoir which was published...

Rediscovering Sir Syed

Scholar Nayeem Showkat reviews a brand new biography of AMU founder, in which the author has taken a deep dive into the unexplored history...

A General Diary

Lt Gen JKS Dhillon’s autobiography that Penguin published earlier this year offers one side of the Kashmir story. It offers a peephole view of...

Golden Leaves

Mirza Waheed’s 2014 novel tells the story of love and hope in times of war, writes Muskan Fatima Mirza Waheed’s novel The Book of Gold...

Kashmir’s Narasimha Rao Days

The worst period of Kashmir militancy coincided with PV Narasimha Rao’s term as Prime Minister. How he handled the goriest situation ever, its diplomatic...

Islam’s Informal Kashmir Era

Kashmir’s transition to Islam was neither the outcome of a forced conversion nor an abrupt miracle by any saint. It was a gradual process...

Addressing A Deficit

Architect Dr Sameer Hamdani’s book on sectarian reconciliation in Kashmir is a Himalayan contribution in offering a narrative purged from bias and slants, writes...
Near Khanqah-e-Moala British colourist William Carpenter Junior (1818-1899) has drawn this picture during one of his three visits to Kashmir. the most Known was in 1853.

Kashmir’s Early Introduction to Islam

Centuries before the arrival of Shah-e-Hamadan and the rise of Sheikh Nooruddin Noorani in the fourteenth century, Kashmir knew about Islam and Muslims. Rajatarangini,...