Srinagar in 1900
In the concluding part of the 2-part series excerpted from Duke’s Guidebook to Kashmir, Joshu M Duke, the military doctor, who had spent almost...
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...
Understanding Sheikh
Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah has been Kashmir’s enigmatic and complex political leader who was as much the master of his persona as he was the...
Cashmere Misgovernment
A British army officer Robert Thorp (1838-1868) was the son of a Kashmiri mother and a British colonel. While visiting Kashmir, he was disturbed...
State Subject: The Evolution Story
Right now when Kashmiri’s entire political class has launched a serious campaign to preserve the demographic composition of J&K, Dr Nitin Chandel details how...
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...
Writing For Kids
Once recognized, writers usually avoid writing about the children. This is the key factor for limitations in the Kashmiri literature for children. Aaqib Hyder...
Sheikh and Plebiscite
Biography of Kashmir’s tallest leader Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah has certain references that M J Aslam failed to get a plausible explanation from the history
Sheikh...
Women Politics In Conflict
Contrary to the general belief that Kashmiri women have remained insulated from the politics and continue to remain the victims of conflict, Shabir Mir...
On Akhter Mohiuddin
One of the Kashmir’s most prominent short-story writer Akhter Mohiuddin was tallest amongst his contemporaries, writes Ghulam Nabi Khayal
The history of fiction in the...
‘The Day of Exile’
“You may embarrass yourself. Writers usually take years before starting to write this book,” Deeksha, the daughter, told her father Bill K Koul, when...
Self-publishing Errors
As more and more writers resort to self-publishing their works, it damages the works and the process of credible publishing. While reviewing a self-published...
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...
