1931, The Pellet Start
A public holiday, July 13 is a landmark day in the history of Kashmir that is being observed sincerely by both the camps in...
The Many Faces of Kashmiri Nationalism, A Review
Book: The Many Faces of Kashmiri Nationalism (From The Cold War To The Present Day)
Author: Nandita Haksar
Print Length: xvi + 335
Genre: Non Fiction / Narrative
Publisher: Speaking Tiger, New...
Untouchability Reforms in J&K
A BJP lawmaker funding upper caste crematoriums and more recently the Jammu University faculty getting invitations with their category mentioned on the covers, seemingly...
Penman’s Peregrination
Life takes a full circle, quite literally. Syed Asma talks to noted Urdu and Kashmiri essayist Prof Mohammed Zaman Azurdah to piece together dots...
Kashmir: The Conflict and the Questions
With a PhD each from JNU and University of Massachusetts, Dr Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra is currently a Director at the Mahatma Gandhi Centre, in...
Scattered Souls – An Appraisal
by Ihsan Malik
In the past Kashmir has seen some remarkable short story writers writing in the native language. The creative and ingenuous efforts of...
A Concerned Visitor
A British diplomat’s wife, Brigid Keenan, visited Kashmir first in the 1980s and was offered a century-old guidebook. Later she wrote one herself. On...
Shahabad’s Samud Shah
Godfrey Thomas Vigne (1801-63) was a British barrister who played first class cricket 11 times between 1819 and 1845. The first Englishman who has...
Earth’s Invisible Owners
His encounters with invisible contagions apart, Kashmir origin American epidemiologist, Dr Ali S Khan’s book offers fascinating simplification of the complex scientific processes and the significance...
The Bridge Builder Poet
Poet Agha Shahid Ali (February 4, 1949 to December 8, 2001) eventually became Kashmir’s identity in the English literature. On his fifteenth death anniversary,...
Srinagar – August 1868
Kashmir has been written profusely in the last few centuries. Not every traveller has been kind to Kashmir and its people. J F Foster, an...
Women In Kashmir Tehreek
After centuries of suppression when Kashmir launched its struggle to regain the life of dignity and honour, it was not a male-only battle. Dr...
Otto Honigmann: An Introduction
by Dr Michaela Appel
Otto Honigmann (1879-1959) was from a renowned Aachen family of mine-owners. He was born the third son of Moritz and Marie...
Remembering Shahid
Amitav Ghosh referred to Agha Shahid Ali as the ‘closest that Kashmir had to a national poet’. Recently America’s prestigious and largest publishing house,...
A Statesman
In 1947, Kashmir was literally independent for many fortnights. After rumours about the major princely state joining India, there was Poonch rebellion and tribal...
