‘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...
Fresh Narrative
by Shujaat Bukhari
Christopher Snedden’s latest book Kashmir: The Unwritten History not only gives a twist to the cause of the division of Jammu and...
Wronged Hostages
A recently released book ‘The Meadow’ shines the light on some of the darkest days in Kashmir’s contemporary history. In the impeccable piece of...
Tarikh-i-Kashmir
Prof Abdul Qaiyum Rafiqi, one of Kashmir’s top historians has published the translation of a late sixteenth-century history chronicle, Sayyid Ali’s Tarikh-i-Kashmir. Prof Ashraf...
A Superpower Tragedy
After the erstwhile USSR invaded Afghanistan in 1979 and the USA cobbled a partnership with Pakistan to undo the occupation, Kabul fell into despair...
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...
‘We Must Look at Our Past with All Its Dissensions, Pain-learn and Understand the...
With PhD from the Delhi School of Planning and Architecture (1999) and a post-doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2022), Dr Hakeem Sameer Hamdni’s...
Kashmir: The Conflict and the Questions
With a PhD each from JNU and University of Massachusetts, Dr Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra is currently a Director at the Mahatma Gandhi Centre, in...
Trout Take Off In Kashmir
Introducing trout was one of the many contributions that Raj made during Kashmir’s darkest era in the nineteenth century. Offering details of how the...
Ganais Of Lahore
In TahreekAqwam Kashmir (1934), journalist and historian Munshi Muhammad Din Fauq has provided a comprehensive survey of different social groups, tribes, and castes...
In Maharaja’s Defence
After going through the first of the three-volume book on the era presided over by Maharaja Hari Singh, Muhammad Nadeem believes the narrative is...
Writing For The Divided People
Pushed to the sidelines, the history of the erstwhile principality of Poonch has been largely ignored in understanding the Kashmir conflict. While the region...
Still Alive?
Colonel S W "Syd" Thomson (November 14, 1914 – November 8, 2009) was an Australian veteran who was wounded during the war in Sicily....
Reading Cardiologist’s Heart
Kashmir’s leading cardiologist, Dr U Kaul’s book offers interesting anecdotes about the evolution of better heart care and various heart-breaking events, writes Khalid Bashir...
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...
