Hazratbal 1954
Roads and plenty of cars is a recent phenomenon. In this 1954 travelogue, Pearce Gervis explains how the huge floating gardens, rations and the...
Wronged Hostages
A recently released book ‘The Meadow’ shines the light on some of the darkest days in Kashmir’s contemporary history. In the impeccable piece of...
The New Age Authors
Over the last year, more and more young writers in Kashmir are taking to self-publishing their books. While enough books may not be selling,...
A Peerless Peer
After the jury selected Basharat Peer, author of Curfewed Night, as the Kashmiri of the year 2009, Kashmir Life invited Dr Haseeb A Drabu...
Mankind’s Kashmir Arrival
Kashmir is one of the few locations across South Asia that still retains tell-tale details of the pre-historic settlements starting from the Neolithic age,...
In love with Kashmir
Justine Hardy is a journalist, a writer and an aid worker, working in the area of mental health in Kashmir. Aliya Bashir talks to...
Words On Paper
Australian artist Alana Hunt was moved by the ban on pre-paid cellphone and text messaging in Kashmir. She created paper text messages, a few...
Seeing The Unseen
Ather Zia’s book on the disappearances in Kashmir published by University of Washington Press was re-published in India by Zubaan. It won 2020, Gloria Anzaldua,...
“If there is one word the novel is all about, I would say, it...
An academic and novelist, Shahnaz Bashir’s first book The Half Mother is set for release on June 21. He tells Safwat Zargar that the...
Recreating Satisar
Ayaz Rasool Nazki’s novel is something that can be read with all the loud guffaws but it pains if one tries to understand the...
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...
Begar In Kashmir History
The forced labour was part of Kashmir’s centuries’ old economic exploitation that killed generations in the service of the despots. Muzamil Rashid explains the...
Love’s True Colours
by Shabir Mir
True Colours by Sufi Auqib, a Kashmir based young writer, is the latest addition to the list of self-published Kashmiri writing in...
“What is the point of saying we are pro-resistance when we cannot preserve the...
Suvir Kaul, the A.M. Rosenthal Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, describes himself as part belonging to, and part being an outsider...
A Consequential Kidnapping
There are various versions to the kidnapping of Rubaiya Sayeed, the medico daughter of the then Home Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, in 1989. This...
