The Agha of English Ghazal
Manan Kapoor’s book on Agha Shahid Ali is a refreshing long story about the leading Kashmir poet whose indelible footprints in English literature will...
Behind Broken Glasses
Inspired by the seminal work of James Joyce, Feroz Rather creates magic in his book The Night of Broken Glass. Shabir Mir sees the...
Understanding The Virus
With an estimated 100 million types and so abundant that all the life forms put together, the viruses were discovered only after the invention...
A Curious Translation
British poet journalist, Sir Edwin Arnold (1832-1904) is credited for his book The Light of Asia that is seen as the first serious introduction of Buddhism...
Kashmir’s Narasimha Rao Days
The worst period of Kashmir militancy coincided with PV Narasimha Rao’s term as Prime Minister. How he handled the goriest situation ever, its diplomatic...
Taking Rumi to the West
Not every line of Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi translated into non-Persian languages might carry the same wisdom as the thirteenth-century Persian Sufi put in his...
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...
Prelude to 35A
A God forsaken country, located deep into Himalayas, Kashmir would play host to anybody and everybody. Criminals, deserters, rebels and preachers – people with...
Sheikh and Plebiscite
Biography of Kashmir’s tallest leader Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah has certain references that M J Aslam failed to get a plausible explanation from the history
Sheikh...
Kashmir’s Christian Heroines
In the name of God and for the spread of the Gospel, these women left their homes in Europe and got education and modern...
Kashmir: A Lawrence Speech
Walter R Lawrence, one of the most popular British India officers in Kashmir, known commonly as Lawrence Sahab, was an authority on a region...
A Superpower Tragedy
After the erstwhile USSR invaded Afghanistan in 1979 and the USA cobbled a partnership with Pakistan to undo the occupation, Kabul fell into despair...
Of Rhymes, and Rhymesters
When five poetry aficionados from different professions and places discovered a common thread in virtual world, they floated a cause to give podium to...
Communalism A Chronology
The Hindu Right has evolved its own distinction in narrating and understanding history, especially of Kashmir. In the last of the two parts series...
Whither Governance?
A young academic has revisited the state of governance in Jammu and Kashmir between 1948 and 1989 and attempted to understand how the conflict...
