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Books

Kashmir has been written about for centuries. Off late, owing to the peculiar situation Kashmir is in, almost every south Asian scholar has written a book on Kashmir. This section offers detailed reviews of the Jammu and Kashmir related books, interviews and profiles of the authors, besides, vital excerpts from the books written recently and in past.

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...

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...

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...

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...

Cashmere’s  Lalla Rookh

British poet’s 1817 narrative made Cashmere instantly famous in the West but nobody knew the man had fallen in love with the Vale without...

Kashmir’s Nitasha

Her debut novel speaks a long tale of a lost identity and that was precisely why the jury at Man Asian Literary Prize found it...

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...

Narrator of Pain

From the strife-torn Kashmir when Shahnaz Bashir came out with his woeful tale of the ‘half mother’, many reacted saying that a new spokesperson...
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Forgotten Dispatches

France’s ‘botanical romantic’ Victor Vincelas Jacquemont (1801-1832) spent 1831 summer in Kashmir at the peak of exploitative Sikh misrule. Letters, he sent home from...

Scars of the Pellet Gun – Review

"This book is not in any way a political lecture, but it is a compassionate and an enthralling work of the author who has...

Poetic Dreams

After the Kashmir situation orphaned her, the young girl from North Kashmir decided to become narrator to revive the reading habits in youth with...

Sans Geelani

Khursheed Mahmud Kasuri was Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf’s Minister of Foreign Affairs (November 3, 2002 – November 15, 2007) and is considered an...

Love of Language

He spent his life’s saving for the promotion of Kashmiri literature by distributing books free of cost. Shakir Mir sketches Gumgeen’sliterary journey and his...

“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...

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...