Muhammad Nadeem
Muhammad Nadeem is a writer, critic, and translator with over a decade of editorial experience in the media and publishing industries. A postgraduate in Mass Media and Communication, he is currently serving as a Copy Editor at Kashmir Life.
1270s: Marco Polo’s Kashmir
Italian traveller Marco Polo visited Kashmir somewhere in 1271-75 and recorded a few passages about the life and culture of a place rendered inaccessible...
Books on Kashmir in 2023
Kashmir continues to be the most written-about region. Though the books focusing on Kashmir lack too many native voices, the 2023 collection is huge...
What is The Quranic Braille System?
by Muhammad Nadeem
Over nearly 200 years since its invention, Braille has been adapted to work with over 125 different languages. This requires mapping the...
Kashmir’s 2024 Wall Calendars Are an Interesting Mix
by Muhammad Nadeem
SRINAGAR: As the dawn of a new year approaches, there is one thing that binds the entire Kashmir across classes and faiths...
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...
