Muhammad Nadeem
630 AD: Hiuen Tsang’s Kashmir
In search of the text and practices of his faith, Chinese Buddhist monk Hiuen Tsang spent two years in Kashmir somewhere around 630 AD....
Kashmir In the Fourth Century BC
Years after Alexander entered India, Indo-Greek relations cemented to the extent that the Greek kings appointed emissaries and ambassadors in the region. Megasthenes, one...
In Maharaja’s Defence
After going through the first of the three-volume book on the era presided over by Maharaja Hari Singh, Muhammad Nadeem believes the narrative is...
The Agha of English Ghazal
Manan Kapoor’s book on Agha Shahid Ali is a refreshing long story about the leading Kashmir poet whose indelible footprints in English literature will...
American Politician Kissinger Who Believed Kashmir Was ‘Ultimately Unresolvable’ Is dead
by Muhammad Nadeem
SRINAGAR: Henry Alfred Kissinger, a name that evokes both admiration and disdain, has had a life marked by three distinct acts. Born...
Paul Lynch’s ‘Prophet Song’ Wins Booker Prize for Universality, Drawing Parallels with Palestine
by Muhammad Nadeem
SRINAGAR: In a Booker Prize ceremony at Old Billingsgate, Irish author Paul Lynch emerged victorious with his dystopian masterpiece, Prophet Song, clinching...
Akhtar Mohiuddin’s Kashmir
One of Kashmir’s most respected writer-intellectuals, Akhtar Mohiuddin (1928 – 2001) has used multi-disciplinary techniques for exploring the distant past to understand the evolution...
Man Convicted for Wife’s Murder After 12-Year Legal Battle
by Muhammad Nadeem
SRINAGAR: In a legal development on Saturday, the fast court in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam district found Mushtaq Ahmed Pandith guilty of...
Evolution of Kashmir Identity
Two Kashmir scholars revisited 3500 years of Kashmir’s distant past to generate a flawless academic narrative about how conquests, trade, cultural encounters and faiths...
‘Islam is Neither Against Rationality nor Democracy’
Tauseef Ahmad Parray's latest book, which Oxford University Press published, promises to be a ground-breaking exploration of Islam and democracy in the twenty-first century. In an...
Kashmir’s Autumn Beauty: Top 10 Unique Destinations
by Muhammad Nadeem
SRINAGAR: As the leaves turn golden and the chill sets in, the valleys and peaks of Kashmir transform into enchanted realms perfect...
Tardy Transit
by Muhammad Nadeem
Public transportation, the lifeblood of any thriving society, connects individuals to their workplaces, schools, healthcare sanctuaries, and beyond. In its ideal manifestation,...
A Century of Bloodshed
As Israel continues to pound besieged Gaza at a huge human cost – nearly 3,000 killed, in retaliation to an embarrassing Hamas raid into...
What Does Islam Say About Mental Health?
by Muhammad Nadeem
The Quran promotes good mental health by encouraging faith, patience, gratitude, justice and seeking knowledge. It reassures believers that with hardship comes...
Understanding Nund Rishi
A preacher, who immensely contributed to Kashmir’s transition to Islam, Sheikh Nooruddin Reshi is the least studied medieval Sufi. Muhammad Nadeem reviews scholar Abir...
