Jinnah’s Kashmir Controversy (I)
Noted Kashmir expert, commentator and author, AG Noorani’s utterance that Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah rejected Lord Mountbatten’s proposal on November 01, 1947 and...
Investigating Bias
Poet historian Khalid Bashir Ahmad has served the government in various capacities. But his contribution to Kashmir society came many years after his retirement,...
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...
Daulat Beg Uldi: An Introduction
The ongoing Sino-Indian tensions are primarily focussed around Daulut Beg Uldi, a high mountain plateau almost equidistant to the Karakoram Pass and the Akshi...
A General Assessment
Former Army Chief, General NC Vij’s book The Kashmir Conundrum: The Quest for Peace in a Troubled Land, published by HarperCollins offers a ringside...
Opulent Memoires
Prominent oncologist, Dr Shiekh Aejaz’s self-published memoir offers harrowing glimpses of the tragedy and travails of nameless people who fought cancer, writes Shakeela Shawl
Reviewing...
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...
J&K: Evolution of Communalism
The Hindu Right has evolved its own distinction in narrating and understanding history, especially of Kashmir. As efforts are underway to polarise the state...
Juvenile Justice: A Critique
A report based on the first-hand study suggests the Jammu and Kashmir’s criminal justice system is utterly inadequate in addressing the alienation of Kashmir’s...
Obama On India
The former US President Barack Obama’s book ‘A Promised Land’ has made a special mention of his first India tour and in between, he...
A Battle for Schooling Kashmir
The Christian missionaries had to fight a despotic ruler, a superstitious society and a looter bureaucracy for a long time before they succeeded in...
The Agha of English Ghazal
Manan Kapoor’s book on Agha Shahid Ali is a refreshing long story about the leading Kashmir poet whose indelible footprints in English literature will...
