When Science Dreams
A Kashmir-born geneticist's debut novel fuses neuroscience, stem cell science and dream logic into a melodramatic thriller about identity, ambition and inherited memory, wearing...
Kashmir’s Songs Never Finished
A debut novel frames Kashmir's trauma and displacement through intimate human stories, recovering a culture's lost melody in three chapters of winter, writes Mehreen...
Kashmir’s First Pilgrim
Abd al-Karīm ibn Khwāja ʿĀqibat Maḥmūd al-Kashmīrī was waiting in Delhi for a visa to Makkah when Nadir Shah's invasion of 1739 swept him...
Dr Karan Singh: A Statesman Scholar
A biography that transcends political narrative, capturing Dr Karan Singh's rare synthesis of statecraft, philosophical depth, spiritual seeking, and civilisational consciousness across independent India's...
Language of Dreams
A Kashmiri novel follows an ostracised boy’s journey from stigma to sovereignty, blending folklore, faith, and language preservation, writes Asrar Syeed
At a time when...
Kashmir Stories, Simply Told
Dr Javaid Iqbal Bhat explores the ‘narrative purity’ in Roop Krishan Bhat’s stories, addressing displacement, illness, death, and rediscovered gratitude
In the introductory pages of...
‘This Is A Novel About Living Under Suspicion And Refusing To Be Defined By...
In an email interview with Azra Hussain, Kashmir-born British novelist Mirza Waheed discusses how Maryam & Son approaches terrorism through a mother’s perspective, foregrounding...
A Tale Untold
In a world defined by political turmoil and uncertainty, Mirza Waheed’s Maryam & Son, his first novel set outside Kashmir, follows the story of...
Khwab’s Kashmiri Journey
Debasmita Dasgupta’s Terminal 3 follows 17-year-old Khwab Nazir, a Kashmiri jiu-jitsu player, navigating dreams, conflict, and resilience. Through vibrant visuals, it highlights Kashmir’s beauty,...
Kashmir’s River of Knowledge
From Buddhist scholastic prose to Shaiva philosophy, satire, stories, and historiography, Kashmir’s literature evolved as a disciplined, self-aware civilisation. This all started almost two...
Kashmir’s Hidden Wars
Harinder Baweja’s memoir travels through Kashmir’s decades of conflict, revealing intimate grief, political ruptures, covert operations and institutional failures, portraying a region where violence,...
Srinagar’s Popular History
In his The City of Kashmir, Srinagar: A Popular History, Kashmir historian Sameer Hamdani gives a deeply-sourced and effortlessly readable story of the city...
Srinagar’s Subtle Superiority
For centuries, Srinagar has been Kashmir’s singular city, celebrated for its sophistication, exclusivity, and adab. Yet beneath its urbane pride lies a vibrant hybridity,...
Kashmir’s Quiet Despair
Zahid Rafiq’s The World with Its Mouth Open delicately portrays eleven Kashmiri lives trapped between beauty and despair, blending realism and existential anguish to...
Cartooning Kashmir
Heeba Din’s Drawing Political Narratives with Humour in Kashmir examines how cartoons in Kashmir serve as instruments of political meaning, blending humour, semiotics, and...
