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...
1860: A Kashmir Memoir
A Summer Ramble in the Himalayas blends travel, ethnography, and empire, depicting the Himalayas through beauty and domination. It reveals colonial attitudes toward nature,...
Kashmir’s Madhouse: A Swiss Psychiatrist’s Story
In The Madhouse at the Lotus Lake, Erna Hoch’s memoir of psychiatric practice in 1980s Kashmir, the Swiss psychiatrist explores psychiatry’s fragile intersection with...
Kashmir: Coalition Lessons
Manoj Kumar Jha’s In Praise of Coalition Politics reflects on India’s coalition resurgence and Kashmir’s post-370 realities, urging dialogue, dignity, and integration over control,...
Vajpayee’s Hindutva Bridge
Abhishek Choudhary’s Believer’s Dilemma is a meticulously researched, psychologically sharp account of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the Hindu Right from 1977 to 2018. It...
Kashmir: Book and Bans
As the Chinar Book Festival celebrates the written word in Srinagar, the Jammu and Kashmir government has banned 25 books for allegedly promoting “anti-national”...
