Kashmir 1823
British veterinarian, William Moorcroft (1767-1825), who played a key role in exploring Central Asia for the East India Company, spent a harsh winter in...
Past of the Future
By the weave of the book, the author has reclaimed the past of his generation. Does the weft of his narrative frame the future...
Reintroducing Ghani Kashmiri
As the Persian language vanished from public life in Kashmir a huge amount of literature automatically became unreadable. A century later two scholars took...
Do Not Wait For UN
Academic Prof Saifuddin Soz has been in politics for a long time. Basically, from NC, he joined Congress and became a central minister. A...
Revealing Little
Amarjit Singh Dulat is one of the many Kashmir specialists. He has handled Kashmir in the capacity of a senior IB officer and later...
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...
Epidemic Killed Indus Valley Civilization?
Researchers have not been able to locate a single major factor for the disappearance of the Indus Valley Civilization other than waterborne disease. Cholera, David...
Pakistan: Menon Memories
Thirty years after The Hindu journalist Kesava Menon returned from his Pakistan posting, his memoir published by Speaking Tiger Books is a fresh commentary...
Railways’ Partition Days
Railways were the sole rapid mass transport system that was managed by more than a million people when the Indian subcontinent was partitioned. Syed...
Kashmir 1783
British traveller and East India Company official, George Forster (died 1792) is the first Englishman who journeyed from India through Central Asia to Russia....
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...
Kashmir’s Canal Life 1954
Srinagar’s water bodies have historically remained a self-sustaining eco-system in which people lived, worked and thrived throughout. Life remained unchanged for a long time...
Kashmir’s Rural Diversity
For a modern researcher, the Kashmir periphery might offer homogeneity of culture and economy. The reality is that the countryside has always exhibited a...
Deconstructing The Ayodhya Controversy
Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay's The Demolition, the Verdict, and the Temple examines the Ayodhya controversy, highlighting its profound societal impacts, writes Syed Shadab Ali Gillani
The...
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...
