“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...
Shabir Shah’s Mandela Days
A S Dulat managed Kashmir as IB’s top guy and later RAW boss. He has made sensational revelations about events, politics and persons in...
The Prophecy
“Great art is one in which we can hear the very heartbeat of life,” Mohiuddin once said. Perhaps that’s why his works reflect the...
Crucial Evidence
John B Ireland, an American citizen, set out sailing Asia, Africa and Europe for six years between 1861 and 1866. He used to write...
“…There is some realignment within the administration (in Jammu)”
Minutes after his Kashmir conflict and Muslims of Jammu was formally released last week, journalist Zafar Choudhary spoke to Durdana Bhat about the state...
CuK’s “precondition” disgruntles book suppliers of valley
Bilal Handoo
SRINAGAR
The book supply lines that feed libraries of educational institutes across Kashmir aren’t always devoid of dubious deals. At least, this is what...
“I don’t think justice is going to be given to you!”
Coalition of Civil Society Kashmir invited Mridu Rai, author of ‘Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Islam, Rights and The History of Kashmir’ to deliver a...
“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...
Dialogue Details
Atal Behari Vajpayee’s government is credited by everybody for the talks he initiated with Kashmir’s moderate Hurriyat Conference. Barring a courtesy call on Vajpayee,...
Link to the Past
Youngsters quest to find missing links to their troubled past has upped the sale of history books in Kashmir. Irfan Tramboo reports the trend
It...
A Glimpse of History
By: Irfan Tramboo
What happened in Kashmir in the pre-1947 era is still largely shrouded in mystery. Only once in a while, we get to...
Reintroducing Ghani Kashmiri
As the Persian language vanished from public life in Kashmir a huge amount of literature automatically became unreadable. A century later two scholars took...
Of Forgetting And Remembrance
Writing history of a zone where attempts to historicize events dwell on finding ‘heroes and villains’ and where corrupt academia has failed to relate...
“So, the main conflict, I would say, is here [Kashmir] – the demand for...
Kashmir is mired in a series of overlapping conflicts, rather than being a single issue to be solved. In an exclusive interview with Syed...
