What Is Ram Rajya?
A review of Rama Rajya, Prafull Goradia and Jaganniwas Iyer's reinterpretation of the Ramayana as a treatise on ethical statecraft and governance, writes Babra...
Kashmir’s Laughing Literature
What does Kashmiri humour reveal about society, culture and literary history? Zahir Banihali’s 725-page study explores satire, folklore, poetry, drama and criticism across centuries,...
Cyber Crime Chronicles
Chitradeep Chakraborty's Jamtara Calling explores India's phone scam capital, revealing the human stories, poverty and easy money driving digital fraud networks, writes Wajeeha Hajirah
We...
Translating Kashmir’s Literature
Kashmiri writers, translators and institutions discuss with Babra Wani why translation matters for a language with limited global reach, and the losses, gains and...
Beyond Political Kashmir
Historian Hangloo's Hues of Kashmir reconstructs the Valley's civilisational history through philosophy, religion and mysticism rather than dynasties and conflict, writes Sanjay Pandita
The writing...
Kashmir’s Constitutional Crossroads
In her latest book, Priya Jain traces Kashmir's history and Article 370's abrogation, examining how law, politics, and identity collided on August 5, 2019,...
Kashmir’s Reading Circles
A chain of grassroots reading communities is reviving Kashmir’s parks as third spaces, echoing the Valley's century-old tradition of collective reading, reports Lilac Ali
Under...
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...
