‘Islam is Neither Against Rationality nor Democracy’
Tauseef Ahmad Parray's latest book, which Oxford University Press published, promises to be a ground-breaking exploration of Islam and democracy in the twenty-first century. In an...
Re-engaging With History
Congress set up a committee to read Prof Saifuddin Soz’s book as its release triggered a sort of crisis on TV over Patel’s Kashmir...
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,...
A Lake Exploration
A cultural anthropologist gives time to Kashmir’s famed Dal Lake and generates an impressive piece of literature, writes Insha Shirazi
Michael J Casimir's The Cultural...
Tamed, Not Caged
Chitralekha Zutshi’s book, Sheikh Abdullah – The Caged Lion of Kashmir is by far the most perceptive work on Abdullah but is short of...
Herbs and Health
Not a very long ago in Kashmir, most of the diseases were being treated by flood supplements in which fruits, herbs and vegetables were...
“When we seek to introspect dialectics of any process, both its negative and positive...
Dr Mir Khalid was born into a prominent civil services’ family in Safakadal, Srinagar. His clinical research has appeared in the British Journal of...
Identity In Early Kashmir
A trained cultural historian, Dr Shonaleeka Kaul is currently an Associate Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies of the Jawaharlal Nehru University and...
A Servant’s ‘Truth Matter’
Reviewing Rassul Galwan’s autobiography, Onaiza Drabu sees the book seemingly lost most of its soul during editing that reduced it to a sort of...
Mind Medicine Matrix
Many years after a top intelligence officer served in Kashmir, his anthropologist daughter went to the US and wrote a book about the system...
The Azaad Memoir
For nearly half a century, Ghulam Nabi Azad rose from the ranks to the heights in Congress and the government in Delhi. He became...
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...
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...
