Kashmir From The Hills
Around 1900, a British surgeon during his long tenure in Kashmir wrote Duke’s Guidebook to Kashmir, primarily aimed at European tourists. His description of...
Across The Burzil Pass
The trek to Gilgit is etched in Kashmir’s psyche because of the Beagar envisaging capturing of young Kashmiris and forcing them to take supplies...
South Kashmir 1868
An Assistant Surgeon in Her Majesty’s 36th Foot, John Frederick Foster (1839-1869) spent almost a quarter in 1868 summer in Kashmir, primarily for health...
Tarikh-i-Kashmir
Prof Abdul Qaiyum Rafiqi, one of Kashmir’s top historians has published the translation of a late sixteenth-century history chronicle, Sayyid Ali’s Tarikh-i-Kashmir. Prof Ashraf...
No RAW Deal!
While demolishing stake-holding claims of many Kashmiris, former RAW chief A S Dulat has triggered a new challenge for his successors in India’s intelligence...
1853: A Tourist On Foot
An unknown Englishman has penned in his peculiar language his long trek from Shimla to Srinagar via Tibet on foot in the summer of...
Should There Be A New Federal Compact Between The Centre and States?
In the book, Beyond Covid’s Shadow: Mapping India’s Economic Resurgence, Haseeb A Drabu makes a case and suggests an alternative. Here is an abridged...
Off The Shelf
An improvement in the literacy rate is not changing the age-old trend of avoiding books within and outside the classrooms. With the section of...
Kashmir’s Feudal Masters
In Kashmir’s history, the invaders, despots and autocrats worked in close association with the feudal lords to control the land and the people, a...
Inking An Accord
The intellectual Congressman Jairam Ramesh, when not in power, writes books. His sixth book in four years is about P N Haksar, a top...
Those Cholera Carnage’s
Unlike many other epidemics, the Cholera has been Kashmir’s resident killer for most of the nineteenth century when the bacteria would come with the...
Kashmir’s Church Bells
The oldest Protestant Church over the Rustum Gari hill is being revived and renovated by the government under its smart city project. Constructed in...
Kashmir’s Early Introduction to Islam
Centuries before the arrival of Shah-e-Hamadan and the rise of Sheikh Nooruddin Noorani in the fourteenth century, Kashmir knew about Islam and Muslims. Rajatarangini,...
Reliving the Past
Even as tens of books were published this season, Kashmir read only two books in huge numbers – one by British authors exposing the...
“In 90’s young Kashmiris were angry but scared and now they are angry and...
Former BBC journalist Andrew Whitehead covered Kashmir conflict extensively during troubled 90’s. On his recent visit to Srinagar, Saima Rashid talks to him about...
