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Books

Kashmir has been written about for centuries. Off late, owing to the peculiar situation Kashmir is in, almost every south Asian scholar has written a book on Kashmir. This section offers detailed reviews of the Jammu and Kashmir related books, interviews and profiles of the authors, besides, vital excerpts from the books written recently and in past.

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...

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...

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...

Geelani’s Autobiography

Sara Wani reviews the first volume of Syed Ali Geelani's autobiography, Wular Kinaray Syed Ali Geelani’s autobiography Wular Kinaray (On the banks of Wular) is...

New Book, New Revelations

That Poonch rebellion and not the tribal raids were fundamental to the slicing of erstwhile Kashmir state is an established fact. But Christopher Snedden’s...
Mehbooba Mufti

Reliving the Past

Even as tens of books were published this season, Kashmir read only two books in huge numbers – one by British authors exposing the...

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...

Celebrating books

The Jaipur Festival has become a huge literary affair with writers coming from all over the world to discuss literature. A session on Prison...

Meanings of The Collaborator

Sometimes fiction tells a truth more comprehensively than elements of truth put together as anything else. Zamir Ahmed writes about The Collaborator, its author...

Shakespeare In Kashmiri

Translating classics from any language to any other language not just enriches the realm of language but the culture of a people speaking that...

Window To My City

A prose poem about the city of Srinagar. It grew as response to Louis Borges’s poem about his beloved city of Buenos Aires. When his...

Words On Paper

Australian artist Alana Hunt was moved by the ban on pre-paid cellphone and text messaging in Kashmir. She created paper text messages, a few...

Of Awards, Events and Assimilation

Awards and events for art and culture must reflect the sensibilities of civil society, not further the ideological agenda of a government, says Haseeb...

HARUD CONTROVERSY

The first proposed litfest in Kashmir generated controversy amid concerns raised by a group of individuals and extreme Facebook-reaction to rumors of controversial writers...

Will Harud Douse The Chinars?

Arif Ayaz Parrey Trust the poet to make a prophecy. I will die, in autumn, in Kashmir, and the shadowed routine of each vein will almost be news,...