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...
1984: Why Indira Dismissed Farooq?
Considered to be the watershed events in the democratic history of Kashmir, hugely elected Dr Farooq Abdullah led government was dismissed as 13 lawmakers...
Interlocutor Tales
At the peak of 2010 unrest, Dr Manmohan Singh government appointed three interlocutors led by Editor Dilip Padgaonkar, with academic Prof Radha Kumar and...
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...
Silk Since 1846
Kashmir has seen various ups and downs in managing the silk as an industry and an economy for the state and the people. Here...
Book Within
A little girl and her father met an accident and she knew many months later that he did not survive. Fighting depression and pursuing...
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...
Baba Chamliyal
A shrine of a popular saint was caught in the time wrap and is literally located on the Redcliff Divide since 1947. But the...
Green Is The Colour Of Memory
In a serious attempt to deconstruct the Green and Memory of the poet Huzaifa Pandit, Shabir Mir discovers a stylish poet’s ornate craftsmanship of...
The Courage of Choice
Doctors Girija Dhar and Syed Naseer Ahmad Shah were one of Kashmir’s most talked about couples because they retained their faiths after their marriage....
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...
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...
An Undelivered Gift
by Saifuddin Soz
Syed Shujaat Bukhari came to meet me, two days before he was killed. When we met it became a kind of celebration...
Sheikh-ul-Aalam: A Rediscovery
In the last 500 years, most of the literature produced about the movement that Sheikh Nooruddin Noorani led in medieval Kashmir is shrouded in...
Do Not Wait For UN
Academic Prof Saifuddin Soz has been in politics for a long time. Basically, from NC, he joined Congress and became a central minister. A...
