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...
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,...
1948: A War Dairy
Lt Gen Brij Mohan Kaul, the Lahore-born Kashmiri Pandit soldier, was a young colonel when he was posted in Kashmir in 1948 spring to...
‘We Must Look at Our Past with All Its Dissensions, Pain-learn and Understand the...
With PhD from the Delhi School of Planning and Architecture (1999) and a post-doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2022), Dr Hakeem Sameer Hamdni’s...
Off The Shelf
An improvement in the literacy rate is not changing the age-old trend of avoiding books within and outside the classrooms. With the section of...
A Lake Exploration
A cultural anthropologist gives time to Kashmir’s famed Dal Lake and generates an impressive piece of literature, writes Insha Shirazi
Michael J Casimir's The Cultural...
